GREAT NEWS FOR WINE SHIPMENTS!

Well, while I have neglected my duties in writing on this blog, something great happened last November and I just found out about it! On November 19, 2008, in a case called Family Winemakers of California v. Jenkins, a U.S. District Court ruled that a Massachusetts law  which put volume eligibility caps on wineries who wished to ship their products directly to residents was discriminatory and designed to allow Massachusetts wineries to ship their products in this manner while preventing most wineries from California, Washington and Oregon from doing so.

As recently as last summer when I visited a couple of wineries in California, I was told that they could not ship to Massachusetts. I just a couple of them this week and found that Massachusetts is now on their list of eligible destinations. This is not just good news for Massachusetts consumers, bit is likely to have an impact on other states as well.