A wine club whose profits benefit the NRA has triggered outrage: Yalumba of South Australia has requested their wines removed from the club’s wine shop.

“Philosophically, I’m not disposed towards the NRA, which runs counter to my family’s, and I would think all my employees’, positions on gun laws,” CEO Robert Hill Smith was quoted in Australia’s Herald Sun. He is taking steps to remove the four Yalumba wines offered on the site. This incident underscores the mediated nature of sales in the wine industry where a winery may not even fully realize the final points of sale of their wines.

Profits from the wine club benefit the NRA. In a signed welcome letter, NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre writes, “Your purchase will directly benefit the NRAâ€™s continuing support of Americaâ€™s Right to Keep and Bear Arms and the other basic freedoms of the American Culture.”

The wine club is run by Vinesse, which operates several wine clubs. This club raises several questions: which types of organizations should (or should not) profit from the sale of wine/alcohol? Do other wineries know that their wines are among the 476 offered on the site and will they follow Yalumba’s lead and seek to have them removed? A smattering of selections follows after the jump:

2010 Terlato & Chapoutier Victoria, Western Victoria, Australia Shiraz/Viognier

2009 Darioush ‘Caravan’ Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon

2009 Frogs Leap Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon

2010 Georges Duboeuf ‘Moulin-au-Vent’ Dom. Beaujolais, France Gamay

NV Roederer Est Brut Rose

Alfred Gratien Cuvee Brut Classique Champagne

Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin ‘Yellow Label’ Brut Champagne

2009 La Crema Sonoma Coast Chardonnay

2005 Guigal Chateaneuf du Pape France Red Blend

2010 Conundrum California White Table Wine

2006 Silver Oak Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon

2007 Sierra Cantabria Crianza Rioja, Spain Tempranillo

NV Henriot (France) Brut Souverain Champagne

2010 Woop Woop South Australia Cabernet Sauvignon

2010 Crios Mendoza, Argentina Malbec

2008 Paitin di Pasquero-Elia Barbaresco Serra Nebbiolo

2008 Napanook by Dominus Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon

2006 Thibault Liger-Belair Nuits-Saint-Georges â€˜Les Saint Georgesâ€™