Monday, March 19, 2007

Red In The Face

Merlot Man Has A Lot On His Plate



Merlot, a variety of grape or a type of red wine, is not acceptable for a personalised license plate in the US. Utah man Glenn Eurick's 1996 Mercedes has had the licence plate ``MERLOT'' for 10 years. He says the plate never got a lot of notice until the Utah Tax Commission told him last week that he had to remove it because the state doesn't allow intoxicant words on plates. Eurick said one man even asked whether he had chosen the word ``because there were too many letters in cabernet sauvignon''. Eurick said he will challenge the state's decision.

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