Archive for the ‘Shipping Wine’ Category
When you spend enough time watching wine politics play out, it becomes a real necessity to be able to laugh…otherwise you’ll spend your time at the chiropractor from shaking your head back and forth in dismay. The wine politics playing out in Oklahoma are both hilarious as well as depressing. This November, Oklahoma residents will, again, vote on the issue of winery "self distribution". "Self Distribution" refers to when a winery sells directly to a retailer or restaurant at a…
FRIDAY’s HEADLINES 1. European Wine Bloggers Conference Underway.Another good sign for the vibrancy of the wine blogosphere. In Spain they are investigating what it means to be a wine blogger, how to be a wine blogger, where the medium is going and where it will end up. You can follow the conference via video and a comments section. This kind of conference is a first. The second conference of its type will happen on October 24-26 in Santa Rosa, Sonoma…
It’s the quadrennial political convention time and my thoughts run to the political. The first presidential election that engrossed me from start to finish was 1984 (my guy got slaughtered). I couldn’t get enough of the debate, speeches, political strategy, platform development, etc. I’m watching it all now, again, and as always it is great theater. But what I’m wondering is this: What if the nation elected a Wine President every four years. What if this president represented the American…
There has been a lot written of late about Pennsylvania’s need to come into compliance with Granholm v. Heald by addressing the issue of Direct Shipping. But none of the commentaries and articles have been quite as good, quite as pointed and quite as funny as that published by the WillDo blog at the Philadelphia Weekly."In the beginning, God created man and the ethyl alcohol molecule. Later, man discovered the ethyl alcohol molecule was psychoactive. In other words, he discovered…
Who recalls this year’s Supreme Court decision titled "Rowe V. New Hampshire Motor Transport Association? Let me remind you of its substance. The Supreme Court ruled that a state may not require an interstate transportation company to get a signature at the place of delivery. By doing so the state would be engaging in the regulation of interstate commerce, a privilege reserve to the Federal Government, not the states. The case involved the home delivery of cigarettes. Since the decision…
