Archive for the ‘Wine Legal Battles’ Category
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…
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…
FERMENTATION has obtained a copy of an e-mail that the Wine & Spirit Wholesalers Association’s (WSWA) president Juanita Duggan sent to a number of trade associations yesterday, a day before the release of a "survey" on on-line alcohol sales. The e-mail strikes this writer as a "stick this in your bottle" kind of parting communication that comes on the eve of Duggan’s departure from the world of wine. Duggan is doing her best in the waning hours she has at…
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…
America’s grapegrowers and winemakers want your attention and want your support. They want your dollars and they want your loyalty. The question is how to get it? One way to raise the profile of wines is to do some marketing. And that’s exactly what the grapegrowers in Lake, Sonoma, Mendocino and the Lodi area had in mind when they created commissions that would assess growers in the area to create a fund for marketing their regions fine wine grapes and…
