By Cary M. Greene Last week, the Wine & Spirits Wholesalers Association (“WSWA”) and the National Beer Wholesalers Association (“NBWA”) published a pair of opinion pieces in The Hill, “The Right Approach to Alchohol Policy, and Huffington Post, “Nobody’s Coming to Stop Your Wine Shipment… or Mine Either!”. In defending the indefensible H.R. 1161, the … Read more
By Cary M. Greene Last week, the Wine & Spirits Wholesalers Association (“WSWA”) and the National Beer Wholesalers Association (“NBWA”) published a pair of opinion pieces in The Hill, http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/161887-the-right-approach-to-alcohol-policy, and Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-johnson/nobodys-coming-to-stop-yo_b_861575.html. In defending the indefensible H.R. 1161, the associations accused the “opposition,” which includes WineAmerica, of being composed of: …a syndicate of … Read more
By Michael Kaiser Last week WineAmerica and the Winegrape Growers of America (WGA) held the annual Wine and Grape Policy Conference at the Phoenix Park Hotel here in Washington, DC. The annual conference allows the Board of Directors for both organizations a chance to meet, as well as for joint policy meetings. This year we … Read more
On Friday, April 29, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) issued a clarification on their February 2, 2011 notice suspending “expedite requests” and informal review of alcohol beverage labels. As members of the industry are well aware, the processing time for Certificate of Label Approval (COLA) submissions has been drastically increased in … Read more
Cary Greene has written a blog post for the great new CARE Act blog that our friends from ShipCompliant have put together. The ShipCompliant CARE Act blog is a great resource to get all the different perspectives on H.R. 1161. What Scholars Have to Say About the CARE Bill