Jennifer Rosen writes an award-winning wine column that appears every week in Colorado's Rocky Mountain News and Denver Post. This week she rips into this country's absurd, abusive and counter-productive Interstate Shipping laws for wines in
Three Tiers for Wine:Hip, Hip, Hypocrisy!
The interstate commerce clause of the Constitution made this country a powerful trade zone by keeping goods moving freely through the states. With the exception of wine. When the 21st Amendment repealed Prohibition, each state was granted the right to regulate its own alcohol sales. The idea was that some might want to stay dry. None did. But all pounced happily on the loophole, using it to protect local business, some by banning direct shipping, and virtually all through the “three-tier system� which plops a mandatory state wholesaler and retailer between a drinker and his bottle.
Check out her very detailed and eye-opening article online: Jennifer Rosen Article on the 3-Tier System
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