Court Victory for Minnesota Wine Consumers
Excellent news from the excellent wine-blog Fermentations:
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We're moving Minnesota one baby step at a time out of its "blue law" era. Perhaps one day soon liquor stores will be allowed to open on Sunday, so that in order to have a drink one might not also be encouraged to drive. Currently you can buy alcohol at bars and restaurants on Sunday, but cannot buy a bottle of wine to take back home before you quaff it.
The state of Minnesota has long been the winner of the "most creative way to protect wine wholesalers and screw consumers" award. With a recent judicial ruling the state can no longer claim that title.
In 1998 Minnesota enacted regulations that prohibited any winery in the country from advertising to Minnesotans that their wine was available direct from the winery and prohibiting Minnesotans from ordering wine via the Internet. Monday those regulations were determined to be unconstitutional.
More detail if you follow the links above.
We're moving Minnesota one baby step at a time out of its "blue law" era. Perhaps one day soon liquor stores will be allowed to open on Sunday, so that in order to have a drink one might not also be encouraged to drive. Currently you can buy alcohol at bars and restaurants on Sunday, but cannot buy a bottle of wine to take back home before you quaff it.
Posted by Doug Williams on
Thursday April 6, 2006 at 2:08pm
