Here are a few items that have come in recently on the wine news wire.
Farmers markets in and around Olympia, Washington will be allowed to stage beer and wine tasting in the future. The Peninsula Daily News reports that state legislation has okayed a pilot project to allow one brewery or winery per day to offer samples of less than two ounces to shoppers. Don't get too comfortable at the tasting table, though. Each customer will be limited to four ounces of samples per day.
On the wine law blog "On Reserve," Lindsey Zahn reports that North Dakota has recently passed legislation allowing that state's winemakers to sell their product directly to stores, instead of requiring them to go through a wholesale middleman first.
Tom Wark's Fermentation blog notes that Maryland's legislature has introduced bills which would allow residents of the Chesapeake Bay State to have wine shipped directly to them. cautions, though, that this would apply only to wine produced in the United States, not imported wine.
Farmers markets in and around Olympia, Washington will be allowed to stage beer and wine tasting in the future. The Peninsula Daily News reports that state legislation has okayed a pilot project to allow one brewery or winery per day to offer samples of less than two ounces to shoppers. Don't get too comfortable at the tasting table, though. Each customer will be limited to four ounces of samples per day.
On the wine law blog "On Reserve," Lindsey Zahn reports that North Dakota has recently passed legislation allowing that state's winemakers to sell their product directly to stores, instead of requiring them to go through a wholesale middleman first.
Tom Wark's Fermentation blog notes that Maryland's legislature has introduced bills which would allow residents of the Chesapeake Bay State to have wine shipped directly to them. cautions, though, that this would apply only to wine produced in the United States, not imported wine.
