Archive for the ‘Shipping Wine’ Category
The "Annual Alcohol Law Symposium" sounds pretty important. Alcohol law is pretty serious stuff, impacts just about everyone in the land, and is an important field in the area of law. So it should be that an "Annual Alcohol Law Symposium" ought to be organized by an equally important sounding "Center for Alcohol Policy". But here's my question: How can such an important sounding symposium, produced by such an important sounding organization, present a list of symposium speakers that counts…
What set of regulatory circumstances "results in the best situation for a state's wine consumers"? This is the underlying question in a Memphis Commercial Appeal article written by Fredric Koeppel that considers the impact of locally-owned alcohol wholesalers that are bought by larger, multi-state, non-local companies. Just such a thing has occurred a number of times n Memphis. Where this southern city once hosted six, family-owned, local distributors of alcohol, now, after successive buyouts and consolidations, only two remain. The…
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…
Yesterday's ShipCompliant DIRECT Conference provided a number of highlights. Among the highlights at a conference that focuses on the task of complying with direct shipping regulations and how to sell more wine direct was the announcement that Winery-To-Consumer shipments of wine had increased 11.5% over the past 12 months to a whopping $1.35 Billion dollars. I was very pleased to be able to moderate the session yesterday where Kent Nowlin of ShipCompliant and Danny Brager of Nieslen presented the various…
It appears that Canadians are set to solve their wine shipping dilemma in one fell swoop: legislation is likely to pass that will finally allow Canadian wine lovers to have wines shipped to them across provinces, a simple thing that has been banned since 1928. Canada went through its own Prohibition of alcohol in the 1920s. It lasted for a shorter time than here in America and most laws were repealed by the end of the decade. But one legacy…
