“Cheap, gross, oily, swill, garbage, lame, snobby, trash, syrupy, only good for a buzz, local wine is not. If you like dry, dessert, red, white, chilled, mulled, varietal, blended, fruit, sparkling, dandelion, mead, boxed, bottled, homemade, or anything in between, stems up! Maryland has wine for you.” Local bloggers are celebrating Regional Wine Week, an outgrowth [...]
Although not the first Maryland wine festival of the season, Wine in the Woods is certainly the most notable spring festival and one of the largest in the state. Good weather brought close to 30,000 attendees to downtown Columbia last year. Given the current forecasts for the weekend – mid-80s and mostly sunny – we [...]
Looks like tomorrow is the big day. After years of “almost theres” and “maybe soons”, the full Maryland House of Delegates and Senate are set to vote on a piece of legislation that would allow direct shipments of wine to consumers on Friday, March 25. Some wines, that is. The house and senate bills cleared [...]
On 3/4 both the house and senate committees responsible for alcoholic beverage legislation will examine the direct wine shipping bill. Click here to look up and contact your elected officials about this issue now > While you’ve heard in the media that some form of direct shipping is likely to pass this year, the respective [...]
Maryland HB234 and SB248 were introduced to the 2011 legislative session today by Delegate Jolene Ivey and Senator Jamie Raskin, respectively. The companion bills, if passed, would finally clear the way for the creation of a direct wine seller’s permit, issued by the state comptroller’s office. A quick click through on either bill reveals a [...]
Helloooo Vinotrippers! Ah, the holidays. A time for some rest and relaxation. Nothing important going on. Just spend some time on the couch with a good… wait, what’s that? All sorts of news about the Comptroller’s final report on direct wine shipping? Yes, that’s right. In case you somehow missed the coverage already in the [...]
Leaders in the Maryland Legislature, via a Baltimore Sun article by Annie Linskey, just gave wine lovers in the state an extra reason to give thanks this holiday season with some positive news regarding the possibility of passing the direct wine shipping bill in 2011. Read the full article in today’s paper or click on [...]
As you may recall from this post on the Free State Wine Project, Adam Borden resigned as executive director of consumer advocacy group Marylanders for Better Beer and Wine Laws (MBBWL) back in March amid accusations of… “aggressive” tactics in support of a bill that would have allowed direct shipments of wine to Maryland consumers [...]
