The bill wasn’t even brought to a vote. What a complete shame. There is still a bill in the Senate but I am not optimistic. (edit: Senate side killed too. Someone much more informed than I told me that if a bill is killed on one side, the crossfiled version is also dead. So much [...]
Another hearing on HB-1260 (SB-616) is scheduled for tomorrow. These bills would allow Marylanders to get direct shipments of wine to their homes like civilized people instead of being putzed around with by the distributor’s lobby. The Education, Health and Environmental Affairs Committee (who?) will hold the hearing. It goes off tomorrow (Friday the 7th) [...]
Amazon.com, Internet purveyors of…. well, everything, are looking to expand that universe by beginning to sell wine. Amazon is looking to recruit a senior wine buyer, whom it says will be responsible for “the acquisition of a massive new product selection” for its site. The wine sales will augment a rapidly expanding non-perishable groceries business [...]
My mother forwarded two articles printed on actual paper this week. The first reaches back to September of 2007: Demand for Maryland Wine is outpacing vineyard output. I guess Virginia isn’t the only state that just can’t grow them fast enough. The article glosses over a lot of points which is more of a testament [...]
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