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In the course of reconciling it’s wine shipping laws with last year’s equality-imposing Supreme Court decision, the state of Vermont has done something very interesting. A new law (S58) signed this month says both in-state and out-of-state wineries may now sell and ship wine directly to retail shops and restaurants, effectively cutting the middle man wholesaler out of the loop. This, in and of itself, is a pretty dramatic step given the stranglehold wholesalers seem to have over the legislative…
DON’T FORGET TO TAKE THE FERMENTATION READER SURVEY ============================================================ My weekly post at Wine Sediments, a group wine blog, is up and concerns the Zinfandel Advocates & Producers upcoming ZINPOSIUM. If you have more than a passing interest in the grape and the wine ZINPOSIUM an event taking place July 7-9. All the names and wines will be there. Click on the link above to read the Wine Sediments post and get the background on the event. ================================================================DON’T FORGET TO…
In case no one saw it, Mark Fisher (pictured on the left and demonstrating the reason God gave us two hands) of Uncorked writing for WineSediments Wine Blog on the Well Fed Network posted a fascinating piece on the organizing of the of the upcoming 30th Anniversary celebration of the the Great Paris Tasting of 1976. The controversy is over how the European judges and the American judges will be tasting the wines as they compare French and American wines…
DON’T FORGET TO TAKE THE FERMENTATION READER SURVEY ============================================================ It appears that both Maryland and Vermont have followed Washington State’s lead and passed laws that allow wineries outside the state to sell directly to retailers and restaurants in VT and MD. This is a huge step that confirms the states’ acknowledgment that wine wholesalers are not necessary tools for getting wine to market but rather one tool that CAN be used to get the wine to market. In the case…
DON’T FORGET TO TAKE THE FERMENTATION READER SURVEY ============================================================ Working at and for Winebid.com in the late 1990s was exciting on a number of different levels. It was the DotCom boom so you felt like you were changing the way the wine world worked buy creating an online market for rare wine. And it worked. Thousands of people bought and sold rare and not-so-rare wines at Winebid. The other part of the excitement had not so much to do with…
