Archive for the ‘Shipping Wine’ Category
There are some interesting takes in the Blogosphere over today’s announcement from the Wine & Spirit Wholesalers of America that a survey shows the world is about to end because 2% of those answering said survey announced they had bought wine online (By the way, the 2% is within the margin of error). Over at TECH DIRT they conclude that rather than proving there is a problem with minors buying wine online the survey in fact demonstrates that, "No, this…
Juanita Duggan, the soon to be former President of the Wine & Spirit Wholesalers Association, is leaving her post with a party shot: A new survey, commissioned by her group of anti-consumer wholesalers, that suggests fully 2% of 14 to 20 year olds in the United States have purchased alcohol online. According to 2000 census data there were last year somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 Million such minors. That means that around 600,000 minors have purchased alcohol on-line. Let’s…
What’s the argument for allowing wineries to sell direct to retailers and restaurateurs, a privilege that wine industries across the country are losing as wholesalers convince legislators to pull this privilege? It’s all summed up HERE pretty nicely in an editorial from The Daily Press in Virginia, a state whose wineries have lost that right one month ago. As for the downside of losing this right to sell directly to retailers and restaurants: "If this policy continues, some of the…
It is such a common story I hesitate to even deliver this information to FERMENTATION readers. However, I can’t resist. Reports in Illinois newspapers have that state’s beer and wine distributors delivering more bribes campaign contributions to legislators in the first half of this year than in any other six month period in history. The stories note that it was during this time that the Illinois beer and wine distributors were looking to the legislature to pass a law that…
Well, it appears that either the nation’s wine wholesalers have had enough of Juanita Duggan or Juanita Duggan has had enough of wholesalers. Either way, it is being reported that the CEO of the Wine and Spirit Wholesalers Association (WSWA), the powerful national lobbying arm of the nation’s wine wholesalers, is jumping ship and joining the fight to keep the world safe for paper. If I had to guess (and I don’t HAVE to, but I am inclined to), I’d…
