The 2011 WineAmerica Fall Board of Directors and Membership Meeting is rapidly approaching. This year we are very excited to be going to Boise, Idaho. This year’s Fall Meeting is very important. There have been many changes at WineAmerica this year and the future of the organization is now more essential than ever with issues … Read more

The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) is adopting, as a final rule, regulations contained in a temporary rule pertaining to the semimonthly payments of excise tax on distilled spirits, wine, beer, tobacco products, and cigarette papers and tubes, and pertaining to the quarterly payment of alcohol excise tax by small taxpayers. This … Read more

Wine Institute and WineAmerica are requesting assistance from TTB’s Scientific Services Division for the purpose of determining whether TTB regulations and requirements can be modified so that the temperature at which percentage of alcohol by volume is expressed is consistent with the international standard of 20 degrees Celsius. Numerous regulations and a US statute define … Read more

By Cary M. Greene Back in 2009, we wrote about several investigations by state alcohol beverage regulators questioning the use of third parties in facilitating direct to consumer shipping—marketing portals, online retailers, pick and pack warehouses, and similar businesses. While the situation has improved substantially in a number of ways since then—there are now a … Read more