Archive for the ‘Wine Consumers’ Category
The odds are very good that the state of Massachusetts will end its annual legislative session without passing a direct shipping bill. The end of the 2012 MA legislative session is at 11:59pm on Tuesday July 31. Currently, H 1029, a bill that would partially legalize direct shipping in the state sits in the Consumer Protection Committee…dong nothing. For passage, the Committee will need to vote out the bill, then the bill needs to be voted upon in the House…
While it seems to me a bit over the top that Italian officials would raid a famed Roman wine store for promoting "Natural" wines in violation of Italian consumer fraud laws, the episode reported by Jeramy Parzan at his respected Do Bianchi blog does speak to the nebulous intellectual and commercial space the "natural" wine movement has carved out for itself not just in Italy, but across the globe. According to Parzan, famed Enoteca Bulzoni was raided by Italian officials…
It's certainly clear to me and it ought to be clear to anyone else considering the issue that human beings are positively inclined to share the details of their lives as broadly and widely as possible. Interestingly, we didn't know this until very recently. Or, at least we didn't have solid evidence it was true. The ease with which social media tools, mobile broadcast platforms and simple publishing platforms allow us all, individually, to broadcast what we think, what we…
Whenever high courts take on the issue of the U.S. Constitution's Commerce Clause, wine industry free traders need to pay attention. It is the Commerce Clause's intent of giving the Federal Government the power to regulate inter-state commerce and the implied prohibiton against states regulating inter-state commerce, that forms the legal basis for overturning state laws that seek to protect its in-state companies from having to compete with direct shippers of wine. So it was that many in the wine…
Noob: So when these wine experts taste wines, it's not just a matter of whether they just like it I see. It looks like there are 100 different levels of quality. Me: You mean the 100 Point system? Yes. Well, No. The 100 Point system is really a 50 point system because no wine is given 50 points. That's really the starting point. Noob: So when a wine is rated 88 Points out of 100 points the wine has really…
