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Meh!!!

Free the Grapes!
Via Kathy, I discovered this important cause.




Free the Grapes! is a national, grassroots coalition of consumers and wineries who seek to remove restrictions in 20 states that still prohibit consumers from purchasing wines directly from out-of-state wineries.

Minnesota's laws are actually fine on this issue. I've had wine shipped from wineries here before.

However, because there is so much confusion between other states, I have also been refused shipping before. Not to mention the times I couldn't send a special bottle of wine as a gift to someone because of the state they lived in.

Anyhoo... if other people can get excited about Saving the Whales, or Freeing Tibet, I figure I can have a pet issue too. Free the Grapes!
Posted by Doug Williams on Friday December 9, 2005 at 3:49pm
Margaret (www):
Have you been following the Institute for Justice, MN branch case for MN Wineries being able to promote and sell their products using the internet? Apparently they can ship product they just can't have a website that sells them, people have to go there or call them on the phone. I don't think they can send faxes either. We had the IJ's Lee McGrath and the owner of one of these MN wineries on our show a couple of weeks ago.
12.9.2005 10:51pm
Craig Westover (mail) (www):
My column on the IJ case was posted October 26.
12.10.2005 4:07pm

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