Comments on: New legislative bill threatens the diversity of New York’s wine market

By: ed

ed — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:50:30 +0000

Ah land of the free right? Get rid of those nobs guys, they are no good for nothing and no one, well maybe their own pocket.

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By: Joe Czerwinski

Joe Czerwinski — Tue, 24 May 2011 21:09:36 +0000

Thanks for bringing this to people’s attention. There’s an identical bill in the Senate, S4499, sponsored by State Senator Carl Marcellino.

By: Don

Don — Tue, 24 May 2011 21:03:13 +0000

And how much taxpayer money will it require to staff and enforce and measure and analyze and prosecute? What a pile of doo doo, just to try to give the big wholesalers a big gun to use against the small number of bottles moving in the gray market.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 24 May 2011 16:38:09 +0000

To Robin C: Revert to Chuck Haywards rule #1.Follow the $.
The few distributors with the exclusive rights to products want to have the State insure their exclusivity with a law; it’s called anti trust. Doesn’t seem as if the fine and rare consumer will be able to get a good wine at a FAIR price if this law were to pass.

By: Chuck Hayward

Chuck Hayward — Tue, 24 May 2011 16:19:17 +0000

To Robin C:

Rule #1 in politics: Follow the money…

By: Robin C

Robin C — Tue, 24 May 2011 15:13:43 +0000

I can’t think how that would pass. The distributors can’t be more powerful than the restaurant owners.

By: JB

JB — Tue, 24 May 2011 14:13:26 +0000

FYI ; not only is this what the politicians are spending time on, they don’t know what they are talking about. Under the new law, every item you want to register as the primary source must first be sent to NYS Department of Agri. for laboratory analysis! That’s right folks,if the primary source can find an ’82 Mouton and want’s to sell it to a restaurant, they need an extra bottle to send to the state first. Won’t be hard to fill the hundreds of positions that will be required now at the Dept of Agriculture.to administer this law

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 24 May 2011 13:55:19 +0000

This just sounds like a horrible idea all around. Hurt the NY consumer and lose money for the State. The same consumers purchasing these wines now are just going to find them elsewhere. This is really what our politicians are spending time on???

By: Ron McFarland

Ron McFarland — Tue, 24 May 2011 13:23:09 +0000

Many states have quirks in wine laws written long ago. I often wonder if a solution is to annoy everyone and allow wine to be sold everywhere, the grocery and drug store, direct to consumers, direct to restaurants, give consumers the choice to bring their own bottles to a restaurant, the channel you highlight plus others.

I think status quo is the weak link, not change.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 24 May 2011 12:38:43 +0000

Not only will this destroy the fine wine market in NY; but the State will lose significant sales tax and excise tax revenues will increasing their payrolls to try and administrate. In the end we lose fine wines and pay higher income taxes to support short fall of this brilliant idea!