Professor Bainbridge...on law, politics, religion, culture & food

Direct Shipping Assailed

At the Wine Spectator (sub. req'd?), Kim Marcus points out the odd alliance against direct to consumer sales of wine:

Call it an unholy alliance, or just another example of how politics can make strange bedfellows, but the forces marshaled against the free movement of wine across state lines are truly diverse. The latest coalition unites monopolistic wine and spirits wholesalers with puritanical neo-Prohibitionists.

Hopefully the Supreme Court will soon drive a stake through their figurative hearts. For my take on the legal and political issues, check out my TCS columns The Grapes of Protectionist Wrath and Bacchus Bytes Back. (Hey, don't blame me. I just write the columns, not the headlines!)