REthink Wine Blog
July 28, 2010
17:32
Recent Direct Shipping News
A few recent developments on the direct shipping front of which you should be aware: Texas: The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has refused a rehearing en banc of last January’s Siesta Village Market decision by a panel of 5th Circuit judges. The panel had ruled to uphold the Texas law prohibiting out-of-state retailers from shipping consumer [...]
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June 4, 2010
18:16
We’ve Seen This Before: Consumer Access Denied In Delaware
If anyone doubts the opposition to direct consumer access to interstate wine shipments is largely about money, they need look no farther than the recent rejection of a direct consumer access bill by the Delaware House Economic Development and Commerce Committee. In a 5-3 vote the committee decided not to allow the bill to be [...]
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April 17, 2010
00:39
Reregulating the Wine Industry
Now that a bill, H.R. 5034, has been introduced in Congress to stop the continued “deregulation” of the wine industry, it’s interesting to look at the game of semantics that is being played by the bill’s supporters in Congress and the wine industry. See So-Called Alcohol Deregulation Bill Introduced in Congress from Wine Business.com. Most [...]
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April 15, 2010
00:27
Massachusetts Chooses Direct Wine Shipping Legislation Over Litigation
Attorney General Martha Coakley of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which saw its wine shipping law declared unconstitutional in January, announced she will not appeal the ruling. The deadline to file an appeal was April 14th. Now, all eyes are watching the Commonwealth as a new direct wine shipping bill is moving its way through the Legislature. As [...]
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April 12, 2010
05:33
Have You Googled Your Brand Name?
I typed the names of several wine brands in the Google search bar and came up with some very interesting results. The first search I performed was for a very well known brand and resulted in the following: Organic Search Results A listing for a lower price point subsidiary brand A listing with the winery’s URL, rather than their [...]
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