US: New Jersey Wineries on the Brink
US: New Jersey Wineries on the Brink
Jun 30, 2011 6
New Jersey wineries are facing a very uncertain future today after a last-ditch effort to legalize their remote winery tasting rooms—for many of them their only source of sales—has failed to pass in the New Jersey state legislature. In December 2010, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled that the off-site tasting rooms and retail outlets maintained by New Jersey wineries were unconstitutional because out-of-state wineries weren't permitted to open up the same type of outlets. A new bill that would have legalized the off-site tasting rooms as well as permitted limited direct shipping from both in- and out-of-state wineries, A.B.3831, was passed in the state senate yesterday with the support of state Senate President Stephen Sweeney, but due to amendments he made
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