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Feature Article
Listening to the cash-rich distributors, the Kentucky legislature passed a bill removing the right of self-distribution, which may prove to be the death knell of its state's wineries.
Kentucky’s Legislature Cashes In ~
Will Kentucky’s Wineries Have to Cash Out?
Shipping and Distribution Laws: Wineries Lose, Consumers Lose
by
Tricia Houston
February 5, 2007
As the bells tolled at midnight on December 31st, 2006, a collective sigh of resignation and despair could be heard in the Kentucky wine industry. For at that very moment, the bill SB82, passed in 2006 and signed into law by Governor Ernie Fletcher, became law. And the future of Kentucky’s wine industry would now hang in the balance.
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