Canadian wines

[Auburnwine]

I weep at the stories of how difficult it is to get wine in other locations.

Imagine a small town in Alabama, a state with the highest tax and certainly some of the most repressive wine laws in the country. And layer on top of that cultural barriers to alcohol and and a very limited population of economically/educationally advantaged people who drink wine (Want to talk about wine as an indicator of class distinctions in the USA?).

Simply to obtain wines that are widely available elsewhere is often impossible here. For whatever reason (the distributor, perhaps?) our little local wine shop cannot even seem to order anything that I request.

But I thoroughly relish trips to real cities, from Vancouver to New York, as opportunities to search for wines. And I am pleased to report that wine resources in Alabama, especially the larger cities and the college towns, ARE improving on a daily basis.

Oh, the ideal would be to be able to get on the Internet and order a case of whatever I pleased. I am not sure, however, that that battle will ever be won.