Archive for the ‘Wine Legal Battles’ Category
Well, it’s done. A Federal Judge in Washington State has completely dismantled the state-mandated three tier system in that state. The "Costco ruling" comes about 72 years too late. However, with this ruling and the legislature’s recent work that allows all wineries across the country to go around the middleman wholesalers we are about to learn a very valuable lesson: A state’s wholesalers and a state’s smaller wine industry will in fact survive without a law mandating all wineries sell…
If you are a consumer want to have wine shipped to you or if you are a winery or retail establishment and you want to do the shipping it can be a pretty complex world. But have no fear, the ShipCompliant Blog is here to answer your question and bring you the latest news from the front. Created by the folks at ShipCompliant, the Winery Direct Shipping blog brings a lot of expertise to the table. And if one thing…
It’s not something to be proud of, but it’s often the case. Sometimes, when you’ve been working for long long time on something and you just want it to be over, you are willing to accept a conclusion to the project that you know just isn’t the best it could be. But, it does bring the project to a conclusion so you accept mediocrity. Most of us take this route from time to time, but the problem with it is….down…
It strikes me that the Monterey region in central California is perhaps one of the most perfectly situated "wine country" destinations in all of California. If all goes well down in that neck of the woods, the county will be helping out the wine industry, and wine lovers, by creating a "wine corridor" that encourages modest development of wine and wine tourism related business up and down the valley. The proposal for the Wine Corridor comes as Monterey is considering…
Just once, I’d like to hear an honest to goodness principled argument by those who would advocate wine consumers be limited in their access to fine wines. Just once. What would a principled argument for limiting consumer access to fine wine look like? 1. It should be consistentThe argument should be able to make sense no matter where it can be made and no matter who would be making it. 2. It should avoid the taint of NIMBYISMToo often arguments…
