US: NY wineries want feds to speed up bottle labeling
US: NY wineries want feds to speed up bottle labeling
Jul 8, 2011 6
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — New York's wineries say the federal government is putting a cork in their business by taking too long to approve new labels for wine bottles.
Sen. Charles Schumer is heading Friday to two wineries in New York's Finger Lakes region to press the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau to clear a bureaucratic logjam and speed up the labeling approval process.
Some of New York's 300-plus wineries complain that getting approval for new labels is sometimes taking months instead of days.
Jim Trezise (trees-ICE), president of the New York Wine & Grape Foundation, says label approvals have "slowed a great deal because of staff cutbacks" at the agency.
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