Archive for the ‘Wine Legal Battles’ Category
There is Shamelessness and then there i Shamefulness. While the Michigan wine wholesalers and Michigan Representatives Barbara Farrah and Chris Ward certainly possess the former, its the latter that they put on display today when they all worked together to introduce a Bill and pass it out of committee with the intent that no one would see them do it. HB 6644 would strip Michigan retailers of their long held right to ship wine to Michigan residents via a common…
Oklahomans passed a Constitutional amendment yesterday that should have the opponents of free trade (read: wine distributors) jumping for joy! The new law allows wineries inside and outside Oklahoma to sell directly to Oklahoma restaurants and retailers without having to get the permission of a distributor and pay enormously overinflated fees for them to carry the box of wine into the stores and restaurants.That's good. However, wineries only have this privilege if they make 10,000 gallons or less of wine…
What would possess the state of Michigan, it's Attorney General and the Michigan Liquor Control Commission to embark on a vendetta against Michigan consumes? This is is exactly what they've done. Apparently the Michigan Attorney General has decided to appeal a Federal District Court decision that reiterated what everyone should have already known: It's unconstitutional to ban consumers from having wine shipped to them from out of state wine retailers while allowing it from in-state wine retailers. The appeal will…
If I got together some co-conspirators, huddled in a dark place with candles aglow and hatched a diabolical plan to destroy the French wine industry, one of the things at the top of my LIST OF DIABOLICAL THINGS TO DESTROY THE FRENCH WINE INDUSTRY would be to ban free tastings of wine. But since I don't know any dark places, have no candles and can't think of a single person who would want to conspire to destroy the French wine…
I can’t imagine what I or what the entire wine industry would do without the Wine & Spirit Wholesalers Association (WSWA) being there to let us know when the debate over the utility of the wholesaler tier is over. Thankfully, the WSWA has announced that any debate over wine distribution in America ought to stop forever because a Texas academician has published a WSWA-FINANCED study that (incredibly) tells us that wholesalers are the best thing since buttered bread! The new…
