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Thanks for the additional information about the origins of this wine. Since my bottle nowhere even mentions the word Wasabi, I am speculating that they decided that this somewhat obscure word wasn’t very useful to their marketing of the wine. I had to look up “Wasabi” on Google, since my first reaction was that it must be a place name. As you may know, it is the name of an Asian vegetable sometimes called “Japanese horseradish”. I guess they hoped this would suggest the suitability of their wine to accompany Asian foods, but perhaps decided later that the word was too obscure to be effective in that way. Perhaps the second label filing was for the purpose of eliminating “Wasabi”? RKS

@Robert Thanks for the kind words, as for the label sounds like there are two different versions out there. Mine is the same as Danny mentioned. Does your back label mention Wasabi? Mine does at the end of the first sentence: “enjoy a calming sip of our Wasabi White”

More broadly, I checked my favorite new research spot: the TTB COLA registry which does show two label filings; one in June and another in August of 2009. There were many other interesting notes from my search as well. The first being that this wine is made by the Helfrich family, which per wine.com who’s offerings tend to range in the $15-$25 dollar neighborhood. Guessing this is the left overs as they appear to make all the individual varietal offerings outside of Sylvaner. In addition, we know this wine is imported by Underdog Wine Merchants who it turns out are owned by the Wine Group LLC which also own Concannon Vineyards. Not so useful I know but thanks for letting me geek out!