I've been away at Hospice du Rhône this weekend (I will have to write something about that, although what can one say about being crammed into a big room with a thousand other people, tasting wine?), but just woke up today to see that in a 5-4 ruling (close!), the Supreme Court ruled to allow interstate wine shipments. Or, more truthfully, they declared individual states' bans on out-of-state wine shipments unconstitutional. This is what I have been hoping and waiting for, and great news for both small wineries that can't get distributors and also people living in states where there is not a lot of good wine to be made/had.
It will be interesting to see how entities like the PA Liquor Control Board handle this stuff. And if the underaged of our nation get drunk on cheap wine shipped to them from out of state and the world all goes to hell. I imagine the battle isn't quite over yet, but this is a big victory.
(And now that I am awake and showered and read the articles again I see the rub is that all direct shipment can be banned outright (not just for out-of-state wineries), and for you poor souls in PA this means business as usual for you, since I don't think you can get wine shipped directly right now anyway. You have to get it sent to your local LCB store and go get it. I am so glad I left PA.)
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