When a popular natural winemaker was anonymously accused of sexual harassment and assault, some restaurants, bars, and shops in Copenhagen quietly stopped selling his wines. Is that the right response? A discussion with some people who have experience with the question here: [https://bord.substack.com/p/22-on-accusations-boycotts-and-doing](https://bord.substack.com/p/22-on-accusations-boycotts-and-doing)
by labend
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This happened to a prominent wine maker in Ontario Norman Hardie, he completely restructured his business to be better to staff. But he still very much “cancelled” and does probably 1/3 of the business he used too.
Actions have consequences
I’m sure this is unpopular, but if someone did something illegal, then let the judicial system consider the evidence and figure it out. That’s why we have laws and courts. If all anonymous accusations = guilt worthy of punishment, then that’s not really a functional society. The point of having a coherent evidence-based system is that it is resistant to abuse. I don’t hop on bandwagons when I’ve only heard one side of a story.
I mean isn’t it all up to individual stores, bars and restaurants do decide which wines they stock/serve? As for if it’s correct I think it really is a case by case situation. If it’s completely unsubstantiated accusations I suppose it shouldn’t happen, but where there’s smoke there might be fire. Not sure which producer you might be referring to, but there’s been producers that I truly loved that this happened to (BT) and since the multiple accusations were brought forward I’ve completely avoided his wines.
I wish that some controversy happened to Gut Oggau so that I could get my hands on a bottle again.