Archive for January, 2008
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Many readers of this blog will have already become familiar with the "Wine.com Episode" of recent weeks. How could you not be. Wine.com's concern with the legality of much shipping of wine into Washington and its subsequent in-house stings of various retailers followed up by their visit to the Washington ...
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Saturday, January 12th, 2008
On a regular basis we are asked, "how can I help SWRA fight its fights for retailers and consumers". The truth is there are any number of ways this can be done. We are taken however by one recent effort by a very small online retailer: WineMonger.
In the wake of ...
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Monday, January 7th, 2008
SWRA has released a report that for the first time documents the astounding amounts of money spent by America's alcohol wholesalers on political campaigns at the state level.
That figure is $50 Million between 2000 and 2006. This is more than all the campaign contributions spent by wineries, retailers, beer ...
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