Archive for the ‘Shipping Wine’ Category
Maryland is receiving applications for and issuing licenses to allow the direct shipment of wine. This was the big news last week and the result of a multi-year effort by wine consumers and their advocates in the state. And as of July 1, the following wineries have been issued or applied for licenses to ship direct to Marylanders: Black Ankle, Frederick County, Maryland Boordy Vineyards, Baltimore County, MarylandElk Run Vineyards, Carroll County, MarylandFar Eastern Shore Winery, Talbot County, MarylandFiore Winery, Harford…
Wine, or at least the high end of the wine market, finds itself in a post-recessionary phase. This is the only message one could take from the ShipCompliant/Wines & Vines presentation given yesterday at the ShipCompliant Direct Shipping Seminar and Users Conference For the 12 months ending April 2011, the volume and value of wines shipped from winery to consumer is up 11.5 percent. This is in contrast to the overall American wine retail market that, according to IRA data…
AN OPEN LETTER TO AMERICA'S STATE ALCOHOL REGULATORS AND ADMINISTRATORS Dear Alcohol Regulators and Administrators: Once again, as you have every year since 1934, you are gathering together under the auspices of the National Conference of State Liquor Administrators for the annual conference of America's administrators and regulators of state liquor laws. This year you find yourself in Vegas. My understanding is that there are a number of accomplished poker players in your midst so this venue is appropriate. However,…
Every now and then I receive emails from folks who want to offer me advice on my writing and on the focus of this blog. I always appreciate this kind of correspondence…even when done anonymously. This happened again yesterday in response to a blog post on the very close relationship between the Texas Alcohol Beverage Commission and Texas Wholesalers. The email, sent from an anonymous Gmail account, got off to a good, solid start: "Until you actually work at a…
Thinking About… THE REVELATIONUpon reading Anthony Lane's remarkably thoughtful analysis of Terrence Malik's new film, The Tree of Life, in The New Yorker, it finally hit me why wine critics likely won't rise to the quality challenge laid down by critics surveying other pursuits such as film, literature, dance and music: As an object of analysis and thoughtful critique, a wine provides no interpretation of the human condition, giving its critics little to grasp on to in order to engage…
