Buying Wine on The Internet in Every State

[Jerry D Mead]

We (or at least I) are not against wholesalers...only against their having a monopoly.

Most wine will always be sold in the local market...usually within 48 hours prior to consumption. Large (and even medium sized) wineries will always need wholesalers to call on the many accounts that they never could.

But there are middlemen for every kind of product, food and non-food, and yet there are no laws saying I cannot pay shipping and handling and have that product sent in from somewhere else if I wish. Why should this one product be sold by a monopoly system?

And there's the other side of the coin...small producers and wine clubs shipping direct to folks serve the same purpose as sampling at a retailer or restaurant tasting. If a consumer gets two bottles of Semillon from a wine club and discovers for the first time he likes it...he'll start buying it from his local retailer...so the direct shipping sales can work for the wholesalers too.

JDM