Archive for the ‘Wine Legal Battles’ Category
“We have a system set up in this country for distribution (of wine) that is designed to create accountability and responsibility. Amazon to their credit tried to abide by the laws that created accountability. When they found out they were unable to do so in a cost effective way, then they had to at some point bail out. The larger issue is if Amazon and its resources couldn’t do it legally, obviously these other companies aren’t doing it legally and…
When a company of the size, power, influence and lawyering capacity of Amazon.com can't figure out how to get into the wine business, you have to ask yourself, what's wrong with the wine business? Let me tell you what's wrong: It's the death grip that is the Three Tier System. It's one thing to have each and every state deliver different regulations for the sale of wine. But it's an altogether different thing to have that regulation be in the…
Consider this proposition: Since the consumption of wine is legal in every state in the Union, and since wine travels well across long distances, any instance in which a consumer in any state can not obtain a bottle of wine when there is someone somewhere in the country willing to sell it to them means the system by which wine is distributed and sold in that state is not just broken, but a sure indication that corruption is the driving…
Don't forget to take the FERMENTATION SurveyClick Here To Take a 2-minute Reader Survey________________________________________ Doesn't THIS fall into the "Thank-You-Lord-For-Making-Me-The-Martyr" category of public relations? Here we have a small, hardworking wine education organization, The Wine School of Philadelphia, being put upon by none other than the bulky, billion dollar World Wrestling Entertainment organization because the wine school uses the term "Smackdown" to describe an event at their school. The Men-in-Leotards insist the Philly Wine School stop using the term "Sommelier…
It has been a while since I posted an update on the status of the Specialty Wine Retailers Association, the organization for which I happily serve as Executive Director and that is leading the effort to give wine stores and consumers the legal right to transact business with one another. So here goes. In 2006 SWRA sued the state of Texas. Texas allowed its own wine stores to ship wine to Texans but prohibited out of state stores from doing…
