Audio Blog 2: The Problem with US Shipping Law

Wine for Normal People

Alcohol, Lifestyle, Arts, Education, Food, Wine, Dining, Grapes

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🗓️ 28 July 2016

⏱️ 12 minutes

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This time I take up the issue of wine shipping and U.S. wine law in all its convoluted messiness. For the full transcript and details on Free the Grapes, go to http://winefornormalpeople.com/audio-blog-2-the-problem-with-u-s-shipping-law/

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Wine for Normal People audio blog. It's a quick reading of post from the Wine for Normal People
0:15.0	blog to satisfy your wine dorkery needs between our longer podcasts. I'm Elizabeth Schneider,
0:21.5	certified Somalier, certified specialist of wine, and chief normal
0:25.2	wine person of wine for normal people.
0:29.0	You can find the written versions and links to these audio blogs as well as post comments on wine for normal
0:34.6	people.com forward slash blog. With that let's get started.
0:40.3	We've freed some of the grapes, but only on paper.
0:47.0	I've discussed my disdain of some of the legal restrictions that the United States government
0:52.4	has historically placed on wine, but I've never
0:55.4	really taken the time to explain why I'm so outraged by this subject.
1:00.5	Even though we've come far with loosening restrictions on direct shipping, we're still not where we should be.
1:06.5	So I think it's worth explaining to you what the deal is and why it matters.
1:11.0	I'm going to reach back, way back to my years at West Lane University
1:15.7	in Connecticut where I was a government major and use this post to dork out a bit about the
1:22.0	Constitution, states obstruction of it,
1:25.4	visa v wine, and why consumer choice and wine has and continues to be
1:29.4	confoundingly restricted. Let's start at the beginning of this mess.
1:34.0	In the US Constitution, there is a very brief clause called the Commerce Clause,
1:41.0	and it states that Congress has the power to regulate commerce with foreign
1:47.1	nations and among the several states and with Indian tribes. Now this clause has been used for legal bases for
1:55.4	everything from civil rights to marijuana growing, but in our little world of
1:59.5	wine there's no stretch of application of the language or the meaning of this clause.
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