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[Zinner]

Yes, of course. That will teach me to never, ever post anything at the end of a lo..o..ong week when I'm half asleep. Grabbed up a printout which must have had the previous address and phones. My(red-faced) apologies. KC's are the up-to-date ones.

If you want to see a web-site that is up, you can go to www.freethegrapes.org. They have a completed one with links to The Coalition for Free Trade and also the The Wine Institute, which has a useful site(www.wineinstitute.org).

I do think it's important for anyone who drinks wine to make their voices heard. Often state legislatures pass bills without thinking them through.

Someone who worked at the capitol at the time of Georgia's felony law told me that some of the legislators who passed the law were members of the California Wine Club at the time and didn't realize they had legislated themselves out of ordering wine until too late. Oops!

Sometimes they vote yes on bills as a favor, hoping that the others will support their bills in return. There are a lot of bills to consider in a short time and perhaps only the person who authored the bill has a complete understanding of the ramifications.

My take is that consumers in Georgia(and Florida and probably other felony states) just go around the laws anyhow, shipping wine to friends and relatives in other states and picking it up when they visit. Or they use one of the stores willing to defy the law. Some consumers have gotten so mad, they're willing to go to great lengths to bypass these unfair laws.