Archive for the ‘Shipping Wine’ Category
You know that whole battle between distributors of wine and wineries? That one that has the wineries wanting to be able to ship and sell their wine direct to customers while the distributors don’t want any direct sales to happen? That one? It’s over. Between last year’s supreme court victory, the number of states that have given in and allowed direct shipping and the seemingly ongoing self mutilation the distributors have engaged in as they try to convince us that…
There are more states today than a year ago and two years ago that allow wineries to ship wine direct to consumers. Some provide easy access to consumers without too much effort, while others have installed real barriers to their market. While barriers put in place to essentially protect wholesalers don’t serve either the consumer or the winery, but in the end it’s the winery that has do decide if they want to jump through the hoops. Paul Mabray over…
In a number of states wine wholesalers have attacked direct shipment of wine to consumers by advocating that all direct sales should occur only after a person actually visits the winery in person. On it’s face this requirement, adopted most notably in Kentucky and Indiana, appears not to discriminate against any wineries. After all, whether th winery resides in state or out of state, the purchaser must go there first. Of course this is balderdash. A person living in Kentucky…
"YOU CAN’T" This was the response to the question, "Could one say, as the liquor trade group did, that millions of teenagers had bought alcohol on-line? Now here’s the kicker. Guess who offered this response. Michael Wood, a vice president at Teenage Research who worked on the survey commission by the Wine & Spirits Wholesalers Association (WSWA) that used the survey results to claim, "Millions of Kids Buy Internet Alcohol, Landmark Survey Reveals." How often will the Wine & Spirit…
Reading through a news article describing the two State and Federal court battles over direct shipping of wine to consumers in Arkansas, I cam across a statement that gave me pause: U. S. District Judge Wright has ruled that Arkansas’ distributors and retailers do not have legal standing to intervene in the federal case, because they could not show how their property rights would be affected if outof-state wineries were allowed to ship directly to Arkansas consumers. Distributors and retailers…
