Heald, which required states that allow their own wineries to ship directly to consumers to allow other states' wineries to ship also. Then there are several states that don't understand the crucial 2005 US Supreme Court decision in Granholm vs. Others don't allow any shipments of wine into the state. Some states allow residents to order wine from any retail store in the country. Probably hundreds of millions."īecause of the way Prohibition was repealed, each individual state has enormous power over the distribution and sale of alcohol in a way that is not allowed with other products. When they crack down in New York and Illinois, you're looking at two of the top five states for wine shipments. "UPS has been cracking down in New York for at least a year," Wark told Wine-Searcher. The crackdown is not a new law instead UPS and FedEx are enforcing existing laws in many states that have not been friendly to wine shipping, says Tom Wark, executive director of the National Association of Wine Retailers. Now they're going to cut it down to 16 states," Marwan Bisher, president of The Wine Connection in California told Wine-Searcher. UPS and FedEx are cracking down on interstate shipping of wine, according to wine retailers, so that stores you have been ordering from may start saying "Sorry, but no." ![]() © UPS | Parcel delivery companies like UPS and Fedex are cracking down on shipping wine between states.īad news for wine lovers (and Wine-Searcher users) in most of the United States: your ability to order wine may be about to be diminished.
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