Santa Barbara County’s Folded Hills Winery Appoints Sam Schmitt General Manager
October 18th – Gaviota, CA – Folded Hills Winery, located at the gateway to Santa Barbara Wine Country in Gaviota, has appointed Sam Schmitt General Manager. Founded in 2014 by the Andrew Busch family, the Folded Hills estate is located a few miles as the crow flies from the Pacific, in Gaviota, just southeast of Santa […]
Afternoon Brief, October 12th
U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Hear Major Wine Shipping Case: The country’s highest court will not decide Sarasota Wine Market v. Schmitt, upholding Missouri’s law banning consumer direct-shipping alcohol sales from out-of-state retailers...
Afternoon Brief, October 7th
Sarasota Wine Market v. Schmitt—What’s the Fuss?: This week the U.S. Supreme Court could decide to take a first step in remaking how wine is sold at retail in the United States...
Sarasota Wine Market v. Schmitt—What’s the Fuss?
A Supreme Court decision may affect the three-tier system as we know it. —Jeff Siegel This week the U.S. Supreme Court could decide to take a first step in remaking how wine is sold at retail in the United States. But it probably—emphasis on probably—won’t. “You really can’t answer what the Supreme Court will do […]
Wine Retailers Ask Supreme Court to Overturn Ban on Wine Shipments
The National Association of Wine Retailers Submits Amicus Brief In Eighth Circuit Wine Shipping Case Implicating the Twenty-First Amendment and Dormant Commerce Clause July 15th – (Washington, DC)—The National Association of Wine Retailers (NAWR) has submitted an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court of the United States to grant Certiorari to Sarasota Wine Market v Schmitt, a retailer […]
