On March 28, the Pennsylvania State Senate unanimously passed 48-0, Senate Bill 790 which would allow consumers to have domestic wines from U.S. wineries shipped directly to their homes in the state. Under the legislation, consumers would be allowed to purchase by phone, mail or internet as many as 24 domestic wines per month. [...]
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Calling All Pennsylvania Winemaker’s With No Dirt
Do you happen to be a Pennsylvania Winemaker with no vineyard? No Problem. Perhaps your real calling is that you’re a city dwelling vintner. Besides, the grapes only care about where they are grown and not where they are crushed. With that in mind, have you considered that maybe [...]
How To Ensure Your Wine and Hospitality Business Success In 2012
If you’re preparing to open your own winery or hospitality business you have no doubt heard the warnings “its a jungle out there” or that “most businesses fail within the first five years”.
Whether your winery, restaurant, or hospitality business success or fails, the one sure truth is that you’ll be guaranteed to [...]
An End To Swipe And Blow For Pennsylvania Wine Consumers
The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board has ended its ill-fated wine vending program after a year’s experiment with statewide grocery stores. The wine kiosks located at 21 stores throughout the state required customers to swipe their ID, blow into a breathalyzer and look into a security camera to buy their wine. The program [...]
Is Your Pennsylvania Wine Ready To Take Flight?
Does your Pennsylvania wine have a distinct taste and flavor that will come through if sipped at 30,000 feet? Is so, the airline industry may be the place for your wine to take flight. It appears that U.S. airlines have taken note that passengers keep coming back to their airline based on the [...]
Here’s What Every Pennsylvania Liquor And Limited Winery Licensee Should Know
Pennsylvania’s Governor Corbett recently signed into law Act 11 (HB 148) which has made numerous changes to various sections of the Liquor Code. The Act made changes include adding a definition of “happy hour” and permitting retail liquor licensees to hold happy hour pricing up to four (4) hours per day and [...]
Pennsylvania’s Privatization Battle For The State’s Liquor Stores Continue
State Rep. John Payne, R-Derry Twp plans to introduce a bill to allow the the state’s 1200 beer distributors to apply for a free permit to carry wine and spirits at your local beer distributor. Permits to wholesalers would cost $50 million. Payne’s proposal in the debate on privatization of the state’s liquor [...]
Pennsylvania’s Liquor Control Board’s Advocacy For Modernization Continues
The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board’s Chief Executive Joseph Conti appeared before the Pennsylvania Senate Law and Justice Committee this week to address its plan to modernize the Board’s operations. Ten proposals were offered to law makers as an effort to stave off privatization of the state’s Wine and Spirit stores. For more read: [...]
Beer, Wine & Spirit Producers Fight Back Petitioning Congress To Reject HR1161.
The wine wars continue.
Members of the Beer, Wine & Spirit Industry joined together recently to urge members of Congress to oppose the “Community Alchohol Regulatory Effectiveness” Act of 2011 (CARE), the legislation (H.R. 1161) sponsored by the wholesellers tier of the Alcohol Beverage Industry.
Wine America, The Brewers Association, Distilled Spirits Council of the [...]
Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board Proposes To Modernize It’s System Of Wine and Liquor Sales
Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board officials advocated modernization changes today as it faces the threat of privatization by Gov. Tom Corbett and others to privatize the system.
The changes were discussed today at a state Senate appropriations hearing. The proposed changes include:
–Increasing Sunday store closing hours from noon until (currently 5pm) 7 or 8 pm
–Erasing [...]
