Pinot politics: Laws ensure distributors get cash, handle nearly every bottle sold in Oregon
Pinot politics: Laws ensure distributors get cash, handle nearly every bottle sold in Oregon
Sep 9, 2012 6
(OregonLive) - Deb Hatcher, owner of A to Z and Rex Hill wineries near Newberg, remembers the early days when she would pack cases of wine into her car and haul them herself to grocery stores and other retailers.
It wasn't always pretty.
"One of the rules is, you have to collect the money when you deliver the wine," Hatcher says. "I remember getting screamed at by the wine guy" at a Lake Oswego grocer. "He said he was sick of being an ATM machine. Then he goes to the vault and hands me a wad of cash.
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