[Sca-cooks] Shipping wine

[Elaine Koogler]

Yeah, but we all know that it's really mostly about taxes!  I wish they'd
back off on this...I'd even be willing to pay the #%@# taxes if they'd just
let wineries ship to individuals in MD!!!

Kiri

-----Original Message-----
From: sca-cooks-admin at ansteorra.org
[mailto:sca-cooks-admin at ansteorra.org]On Behalf Of James May
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 4:07 PM
To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Shipping wine


At 03:07 PM 12/31/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>I belong to a wine tasting group at a winery in California, and we've run
>into a similar problem.  Wineries appear to be the only folks who can
>legally ship the stuff, but there are a number of states, etc., where they
>cannot ship...Maryland, DC and Virginia being among them.  However, I
>suspect that, if the box didn't say "such and such a winery", UPS or
>whatever would probably handle small shipments.  Our problem was that when
>Phillip tried to ship a case and a half back (my collection of purchases
>that hadn't been shipped for about 8 months), UPS wouldn't handle
>it...because the boxes both said "Mirassou Winery" on them.  So that's what
>we've run into....
>
>Kiri
         There was an article in yesterdays Washington post about shipping
wine across state lines. Some states, Maryland is one, will charge you with
a felony offence if you are caught shipping alcoholic beverages into the
state. Maryland law will only allow you to "carry" 2 bottles across the
state line. There were several reasons given: Taxes, control of this
dangerous DRUG so that intelligent teens don't buy it over the internet,
etc.

Jehan Yves

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