https://www.wines.com/wineboard/ Fri, 01 May 2026 03:17:21 +0000 MyBB https://www.wines.com/wineboard/thread-22314.html Mon, 28 May 2012 16:56:50 +0000 ]]> https://www.wines.com/wineboard/thread-22314.html
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is soon accepting applications to register new domain names such as www.brand.wine

Would you feel the wine online community would be better recognized with such domain names?]]>
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is soon accepting applications to register new domain names such as www.brand.wine

Would you feel the wine online community would be better recognized with such domain names?]]> https://www.wines.com/wineboard/thread-22133.html Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:28:54 +0000 ]]> https://www.wines.com/wineboard/thread-22133.html
What I do not get from this is that the TABC, the regulatory agency in MY State of Texas quashed all direct shipments from our Company to any county outside of Travis County (Austin, TX). At that time a year ago, we were well on our track to be a sizable wine retailer and at no time did they even offer up to us a "Winery License" as they did to Wine.com. While we operate a completely different kind of wine retailer (personalized wine) they still didn't make any effort to bend licensing rules to ensure that we could operate and continue to produce sales tax revenues to our state. This circus show cost me over a million bucks... and now they will gladly give us a winery license even thought all we will ever do is blend one bottle, which I will gladly sell for "One Meeellion Dollars." There will be a waiting list for that single bottle... !
"link":http://pr.wine.com/2011/12/wine-com-resumes-shipping-texas-time-holiday-shopping/

Enjoy reading this gnarly bit of news...]]>
What I do not get from this is that the TABC, the regulatory agency in MY State of Texas quashed all direct shipments from our Company to any county outside of Travis County (Austin, TX). At that time a year ago, we were well on our track to be a sizable wine retailer and at no time did they even offer up to us a "Winery License" as they did to Wine.com. While we operate a completely different kind of wine retailer (personalized wine) they still didn't make any effort to bend licensing rules to ensure that we could operate and continue to produce sales tax revenues to our state. This circus show cost me over a million bucks... and now they will gladly give us a winery license even thought all we will ever do is blend one bottle, which I will gladly sell for "One Meeellion Dollars." There will be a waiting list for that single bottle... !
"link":http://pr.wine.com/2011/12/wine-com-resumes-shipping-texas-time-holiday-shopping/

Enjoy reading this gnarly bit of news...]]> https://www.wines.com/wineboard/thread-22015.html Tue, 08 Nov 2011 10:17:12 +0000 ]]> https://www.wines.com/wineboard/thread-22015.html
Haiwei Liquor Trading Market, supported by the Commerce Department of PRC, is the most legitimate international liquor trading platform with sustainable development. It conducts chain operation in free trade zones nationwide, adopts a mode of unified customs clearance, unified inspection & quarantine, unified distribution, unified operation and management. With outlets center in districts and counties throughout China, Haiwei changes the traditional mode of multi-agencies and brings to Chinese consumers original liquor products from international wineries through customs clearance and distribution. Haiwei applies the mechanism for selecting the superior and eliminating the inferior to ensure Chinese consumers to obtain international liquor products which are “legitimately imported, direct selling, safe, of fine quality.” Haiwei also makes a promise that it will compensate a hundred times price if anyone finds out fake products in Haiwei.

Haiwei Liquor Trading Market, with concept of “most innovative high-end mode, occupying market without risk”, is the sole international liquor trading platform with legal operation right in China. It’s devoting to avoiding risks, reducing costs, increasing efficiency, occupying market, and building brand for wineries. Supplier members of Haiwei enjoy these advantages: enjoying mature resources, easing financial pressure, building permanent brands, and occupying market easily.


Haiwei Liquor Trading Market aims to establish 100 flagship stores of outlets center and 500 outlets center throughout China, so as to make huge marketing network.


Welcome to join in supplier members of Haiwei Liquor Trading Market, to have your wines entered the Chinese market and become known brands as fast as possible.


If you are interested, pls do not hesitate to contact me by Skype at ivyxie1220, or email at hw0017@hotmail.com, or phone at 0086-13590258865.

Ivy Xie

Marketing Director

Shenzhen Haiwei Investment Co., Ltd.

China Haiwei Liquor Trading Market

Tel:86-0755-86160566

Mob:86-13590258865

Email:hw0017@hotmail.com

Skype:ivyxie1220]]>
Haiwei Liquor Trading Market, supported by the Commerce Department of PRC, is the most legitimate international liquor trading platform with sustainable development. It conducts chain operation in free trade zones nationwide, adopts a mode of unified customs clearance, unified inspection & quarantine, unified distribution, unified operation and management. With outlets center in districts and counties throughout China, Haiwei changes the traditional mode of multi-agencies and brings to Chinese consumers original liquor products from international wineries through customs clearance and distribution. Haiwei applies the mechanism for selecting the superior and eliminating the inferior to ensure Chinese consumers to obtain international liquor products which are “legitimately imported, direct selling, safe, of fine quality.” Haiwei also makes a promise that it will compensate a hundred times price if anyone finds out fake products in Haiwei.

Haiwei Liquor Trading Market, with concept of “most innovative high-end mode, occupying market without risk”, is the sole international liquor trading platform with legal operation right in China. It’s devoting to avoiding risks, reducing costs, increasing efficiency, occupying market, and building brand for wineries. Supplier members of Haiwei enjoy these advantages: enjoying mature resources, easing financial pressure, building permanent brands, and occupying market easily.


Haiwei Liquor Trading Market aims to establish 100 flagship stores of outlets center and 500 outlets center throughout China, so as to make huge marketing network.


Welcome to join in supplier members of Haiwei Liquor Trading Market, to have your wines entered the Chinese market and become known brands as fast as possible.


If you are interested, pls do not hesitate to contact me by Skype at ivyxie1220, or email at hw0017@hotmail.com, or phone at 0086-13590258865.

Ivy Xie

Marketing Director

Shenzhen Haiwei Investment Co., Ltd.

China Haiwei Liquor Trading Market

Tel:86-0755-86160566

Mob:86-13590258865

Email:hw0017@hotmail.com

Skype:ivyxie1220]]> https://www.wines.com/wineboard/thread-2926.html Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:51:00 +0000 ]]> https://www.wines.com/wineboard/thread-2926.html
Did you know that the 2006 MA ban on direct wine shipping from wineries producing more than 30,000 gals. a year has been deemed a violation of the Commerce Clause of the US Constitution because it was designed to purposely discriminate against out of state wineries?]]>
Did you know that the 2006 MA ban on direct wine shipping from wineries producing more than 30,000 gals. a year has been deemed a violation of the Commerce Clause of the US Constitution because it was designed to purposely discriminate against out of state wineries?]]> https://www.wines.com/wineboard/thread-2928.html Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:38:00 +0000 ]]> https://www.wines.com/wineboard/thread-2928.html
Once you fill out the form and click send, it would send it to your congressman or congresswoman. Records would be kept confidential.]]>
Once you fill out the form and click send, it would send it to your congressman or congresswoman. Records would be kept confidential.]]> https://www.wines.com/wineboard/thread-2987.html Sat, 10 Mar 2007 21:10:00 +0000 ]]> https://www.wines.com/wineboard/thread-2987.html
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[This message has been edited by winetrailtraveler (edited 03-10-2007).]]]> https://www.wines.com/wineboard/thread-2988.html Tue, 13 Feb 2007 04:51:00 +0000 ]]> https://www.wines.com/wineboard/thread-2988.html Panelist calls Texas liquor regulation 'corrupt' system
Associated Press

AUSTIN — A citizen member of the state's Sunset Advisory Commission wants the Legislature to dismantle what he calls the "corrupt system" of alcoholic beverage regulation that he says protects wholesale distributors.

Austin attorney Howard Wolf, in a scathing position paper, criticized the relationships among lawmakers, wholesale distributors and the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission.

The paper, delivered Thursday to the Sunset Commission, comes less than two weeks after state reports showed groups representing wholesale liquor distributors donated more than $1 million to the campaigns of at least 150 state officials, including most legislators and Republican Gov. Rick Perry.

Made up of legislators and citizens, the Sunset Advisory Commission regularly reviews state agencies and programs to recommend whether they should be continued by the Legislature.

Wolf wants his comments included in the panel's final report on the Alcoholic Beverage Commission that's to be presented to the Legislature soon.

That decision will be left to commission Chairman Kim Brimer, the Republican senator from Forth Worth who has discouraged Wolf from publicly voicing his criticisms.

Wolf said the alcoholic beverage lobby did everything in its power to keep the Sunset Commission, which periodically reviews state agencies' performance, from conducting "an objective, critical review" of how the industry is regulated.

"Poised like lions on a patch of high ground in the Serengeti, occasionally swishing their tails so their presence would be noted, the lions of the lobby watched at hearings to ensure that no Republican elephant or Democratic mule would dare stray from the prescribed path," Wolf wrote of the Sunset Commission hearings in December.

Representatives of the alcoholic beverage distributors have said the campaign contributions served as a prelude to an effort to pass a law requiring restaurants and bars to buy their liquor solely from distributors.

Businesses that sell liquor by the drink have been required, since 1971, to buy from package stores. The more than 600 package stores licensed to sell to bars and restaurants buy much of their liquor from wholesale distributors.

Wolf does not assert wrongdoing on the part of anyone, but the report contends that the system of regulating alcohol in Texas thwarts the free market and protects the industry at the expense of consumers.

So powerful is the liquor lobby in the Legislature that the Texas Tax Reform Commission, led by former state Comptroller John Sharp, dismissed the suggestion that a tax increase be imposed on alcoholic beverages, the first since 1984.

The commission recommended, and lawmakers later imposed, a $1-a-pack tax increase on cigarettes that took effect Jan. 1.

Wolf, who also served on the Tax Reform Commission, wrote that Sharp "advised the members that the alcoholic beverage industry has a controlling influence with the Legislature, and inclusion of increases of taxes on the industry would probably prevent approval of any tax reform legislation."

Wolf called it evidence of a fundamental corruption.

Sharp said Thursday that it was proof only that there was no legislative support to raise alcohol taxes.

"Whether you call it a controlling interest or not, they have sent a message that they had the controlling votes to defeat that kind of tax," Sharp said.]]> Panelist calls Texas liquor regulation 'corrupt' system
Associated Press

AUSTIN — A citizen member of the state's Sunset Advisory Commission wants the Legislature to dismantle what he calls the "corrupt system" of alcoholic beverage regulation that he says protects wholesale distributors.

Austin attorney Howard Wolf, in a scathing position paper, criticized the relationships among lawmakers, wholesale distributors and the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission.

The paper, delivered Thursday to the Sunset Commission, comes less than two weeks after state reports showed groups representing wholesale liquor distributors donated more than $1 million to the campaigns of at least 150 state officials, including most legislators and Republican Gov. Rick Perry.

Made up of legislators and citizens, the Sunset Advisory Commission regularly reviews state agencies and programs to recommend whether they should be continued by the Legislature.

Wolf wants his comments included in the panel's final report on the Alcoholic Beverage Commission that's to be presented to the Legislature soon.

That decision will be left to commission Chairman Kim Brimer, the Republican senator from Forth Worth who has discouraged Wolf from publicly voicing his criticisms.

Wolf said the alcoholic beverage lobby did everything in its power to keep the Sunset Commission, which periodically reviews state agencies' performance, from conducting "an objective, critical review" of how the industry is regulated.

"Poised like lions on a patch of high ground in the Serengeti, occasionally swishing their tails so their presence would be noted, the lions of the lobby watched at hearings to ensure that no Republican elephant or Democratic mule would dare stray from the prescribed path," Wolf wrote of the Sunset Commission hearings in December.

Representatives of the alcoholic beverage distributors have said the campaign contributions served as a prelude to an effort to pass a law requiring restaurants and bars to buy their liquor solely from distributors.

Businesses that sell liquor by the drink have been required, since 1971, to buy from package stores. The more than 600 package stores licensed to sell to bars and restaurants buy much of their liquor from wholesale distributors.

Wolf does not assert wrongdoing on the part of anyone, but the report contends that the system of regulating alcohol in Texas thwarts the free market and protects the industry at the expense of consumers.

So powerful is the liquor lobby in the Legislature that the Texas Tax Reform Commission, led by former state Comptroller John Sharp, dismissed the suggestion that a tax increase be imposed on alcoholic beverages, the first since 1984.

The commission recommended, and lawmakers later imposed, a $1-a-pack tax increase on cigarettes that took effect Jan. 1.

Wolf, who also served on the Tax Reform Commission, wrote that Sharp "advised the members that the alcoholic beverage industry has a controlling influence with the Legislature, and inclusion of increases of taxes on the industry would probably prevent approval of any tax reform legislation."

Wolf called it evidence of a fundamental corruption.

Sharp said Thursday that it was proof only that there was no legislative support to raise alcohol taxes.

"Whether you call it a controlling interest or not, they have sent a message that they had the controlling votes to defeat that kind of tax," Sharp said.]]> https://www.wines.com/wineboard/thread-2876.html Sat, 25 Nov 2006 20:46:00 +0000 ]]> https://www.wines.com/wineboard/thread-2876.html https://www.wines.com/wineboard/thread-2862.html Wed, 12 Jul 2006 03:17:00 +0000 ]]> https://www.wines.com/wineboard/thread-2862.html
Thank you
Please adivse
Nicolas La Porta]]>
Thank you
Please adivse
Nicolas La Porta]]> https://www.wines.com/wineboard/thread-2995.html Tue, 11 Jul 2006 06:40:00 +0000 ]]> https://www.wines.com/wineboard/thread-2995.html
http://www.ktvu.com/globalwarming/9494441/detail.html

"Areas suitable for growing premium wine grapes could be reduced by 50 percent -- and possibly as much as 81 percent -- by the end of this century, according to a study Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The paper indicates increasing weather problems for grapes in such areas as California's Napa and Sonoma valleys.

The main problem: An increase in the frequency of extremely hot days, according to Noah Diffenbaugh of the department of earth and atmospheric sciences at Purdue University."

of interest to me:

"A thousand years ago when Viking explorers arrived on the coasts of eastern Canada and New England they named the region Vinland, a designation that has perplexed many historians since grapes are uncommon there now.

The weather was warmer then, however."

why? cause LI is not that far from New England, just across the 'pond' as a matter of fact.]]>
http://www.ktvu.com/globalwarming/9494441/detail.html

"Areas suitable for growing premium wine grapes could be reduced by 50 percent -- and possibly as much as 81 percent -- by the end of this century, according to a study Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The paper indicates increasing weather problems for grapes in such areas as California's Napa and Sonoma valleys.

The main problem: An increase in the frequency of extremely hot days, according to Noah Diffenbaugh of the department of earth and atmospheric sciences at Purdue University."

of interest to me:

"A thousand years ago when Viking explorers arrived on the coasts of eastern Canada and New England they named the region Vinland, a designation that has perplexed many historians since grapes are uncommon there now.

The weather was warmer then, however."

why? cause LI is not that far from New England, just across the 'pond' as a matter of fact.]]> https://www.wines.com/wineboard/thread-2910.html Fri, 23 Jun 2006 00:57:00 +0000 ]]> https://www.wines.com/wineboard/thread-2910.html
Her proposed solutions: spend more on marketing, take vineyard lands out of production, and loosen the rigid rules that govern the entire industry. All under the omnipotent hands of the EU bureaucrats, of course! Ha!

Here's a novel idea: how about firing all the EU micro-managers and letting the free market set the rules of the European wine industry? Figure the odds...]]>
Her proposed solutions: spend more on marketing, take vineyard lands out of production, and loosen the rigid rules that govern the entire industry. All under the omnipotent hands of the EU bureaucrats, of course! Ha!

Here's a novel idea: how about firing all the EU micro-managers and letting the free market set the rules of the European wine industry? Figure the odds...]]> https://www.wines.com/wineboard/thread-2954.html Fri, 19 May 2006 19:14:00 +0000 ]]> https://www.wines.com/wineboard/thread-2954.html In addition, I am looking for good CA red wines in the low to mid-price range to sell in Japan. The account has the potential to be high volume and extended.

Please feel free to contact me with any ideas. guidehindsight2020@yahoo.com]]> In addition, I am looking for good CA red wines in the low to mid-price range to sell in Japan. The account has the potential to be high volume and extended.

Please feel free to contact me with any ideas. guidehindsight2020@yahoo.com]]> https://www.wines.com/wineboard/thread-2838.html Sun, 26 Feb 2006 04:54:00 +0000 ]]> https://www.wines.com/wineboard/thread-2838.html
http://www.freethegrapes.org/]]>
http://www.freethegrapes.org/]]> https://www.wines.com/wineboard/thread-2853.html Sun, 19 Feb 2006 16:50:00 +0000 ]]> https://www.wines.com/wineboard/thread-2853.html https://www.wines.com/wineboard/thread-2817.html Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:03:00 +0000 ]]> https://www.wines.com/wineboard/thread-2817.html
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/index.php?sty=59104]]>
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