Call it the Red Ink Wine Bill
Erie Times-News weighs in with an article on the bill in the Pennsylvania state legislature that would ban wineries from shipping straight to consumers, a topic we mentioned in a post last week. Pennsylvania wine-makers quite reasonably fear that the proposal will hurt the state’s wineries. The ban would force wineries to sell only through the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board’s stores. It’s hard top predict what the net effect will be, but one should keep in mind that profit is often made on the margin, so losing even some seemingly small percentage of sales could take a real bite out of net income for wineries of all sizes.