A WORD ABOUT SHIPPING ACROSS STATE LINES

Our nation's two proudest political achievements--the Civil War and Prohibition--have left us with a strangling Gordian knot of interstate shipping regulations which makes Middle Eastern politics look like a loose half hitch.

A dozen states have made wine shipments to their residents a felony...yeah, like murder, child abuse, and heroin trading. These states, largely distinguished by trenchant bigotry, tobacco husbandry, and chromatically challenged dentition, were not merely victims of evangelism run amok. Their legislatures were bullied and bought by beer and liquor distributors eager to protect their station at the trough of sheltered monopolies. In fact, when the gangsters moved out of the "alcohol business" after Repeal, the vacuum was quickly filled by folks who adopted the proven methods of convivial intercourse with lawmakers. The machine guns
are gone, mostly, but the money is better than ever.

Don't like it? Complain to your governor.

We regret that we're no longer able to ship to states other than California and Illinois .