Charles F. Shaw

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Charles F. Shaw is an American businessman and former winery owner whose name is used for Charles Shaw wine, a brand of inexpensive table wines.

Shaw graduated from Stanford business school and was an investment banker. He became enamored with Beaujolais wine while living in Europe and moved to Napa Valley in 1974 to start a winery. In 1991 Shaw and his wife divorced and sold his original Charles Shaw label to Fred Franzia's Bronco Wine Company. The label had a good reputation, so Bronco used the name to market an inexpensive table wine.

Shaw moved to Chicago and works for a software company. In 2003, he announced he was considering starting a winery in southwestern Michigan.

[edit] References

• Staff reporters (December 2004). Michigan: Charles Shaw to Build Winery in Michigan. Wines & Vines
• Harry Cline (February 15, 2003). "Two-Buck Chuck" helps drain wine tanks' overflow. Farm Press