Archive for the ‘Shipping Wine’ Category
So Imagine this law… I’m a California winery. I get an order for two bottles of my 90 point Russian River Valley Zin from a nice fellow in Minnasota. He tells me, "ship the wine to my friend in San Francisco." However, Minnasota law prevents me from taking his order ( read the last paragraph of this link). That enlightened state has a little law prohibiting in-state (they do have wineries in Minnasota) and out-of-state wineries from accepting orders from…
With so much more interest focused on e-commerce and buying wine on-line after the Supreme Court’s wine decision in May, the issue of how to best sell wine on line has become a hot topic in the wine industry. How should a winery manage its on-line sales? What do consumers want from a winery’s on-line wine shop? What’s the best way to communicate with consumers? A number of companies exist to help wineries go a good job of selling wine…
Joel Goldberg, one of the founders of WineCAM (a consumer organization that represents michigan consumers) delivered a comment to an earlier post here at FERMENTATIONS. The information in his comment is important. For that reason I am duplicting it here in a more prominent place. VIA JOEL GOLDBERG…After a week of digesting the House-passed bill, one thing is crystal clear: this is NOT a partial victory for consumers. It’s a de facto shipping ban via regulation, rather than legislation. For…
Something interesting has happened in Michigan. The wholesalers there, who had been pushing most ardently for complete restrictions on any direct shipping of wine to consumers changed their tune. Since the Supreme Court decision in May they had been arguing for the complete ban on shipping, and doing so in a clumsy but loud manner. They were able to get a legislator (Chris Ward) to offer legislation that would have banned the shipment of wine to consumers. That backfired when…
Writer Dan Berger remains the most astute observer of the California wine industry. That quality was on display in the latest issue of his newsletter, "Vintage Experiences" that hit the email box last night. Dan points out that California’s new shipping law, SB118, which has been criticized for leaving retailers out in the cold when it comes to the ability to ship to consumers, also happens to screw CONSUMERS in a more fundamental way. SB118 does not include a provision…
