Wine industry law, including winery operations, labeling, distribution, direct shipping, taxation, and commercial disputes.
A termination notice does not finish the handoff. The KRIS–Winebow dispute highlights the contract terms brands and wholesalers need for continued sales, compensation, trademark use, and control of websites and social accounts. Includes sample language addressing performance during the transition and the transfer of digital brand assets.
Maine required Tito’s to use its control-state warehouse system, then treated the inventory as a tax connection. The decision gives alcohol suppliers a reason to review bailment terms, retained title, and the tax consequences of mandatory distribution arrangements.
The Supreme Court’s May 2026 denials in Day v. Henry and Chicago Wine v. Braun left the lower-court judgments in place. We examine what those denials leave unresolved and why evidence remains central to retailer direct-shipping challenges.
Retailer-shipping challengers prevailed in the Sixth Circuit’s Ohio case. The opinion illustrates why discriminatory shipping restrictions require an evidentiary defense and why that inquiry differs from a challenge to the three-tier system as a whole.
A barrel-rack collapse put years of whiskey production at risk. Vale Fox’s insurance dispute illustrates why producers should examine collapse coverage, construction exclusions, and definitions of finished stock.
When a non-alcoholic brand expands into alcohol, statutory definitions may leave a distributor’s investment exposed. The Arizona SunRise and Arizona Hard dispute offers lessons for defining brands, extensions, and goodwill in contracts.
Goose Ridge Vineyards’ insurance dispute illustrates how wine defects, production contracts, and expert evidence intersect with commercial general liability coverage. Documentation of grapes, bottling, and closures can matter.
Warehouse tastings and oral agreements matter in the Missouri Franchise Act analysis. This article examines Pinnacle v. Share A Splash, with links to the Eighth Circuit opinion and oral argument.
Iowa’s winery licensing rules raised questions about equal access to direct retail sales. This article examines Buckel’s challenge and the distinction between the three-tier system and exceptions to it.
Anvar v. Dwyer brings the role of evidence into focus in a Commerce Clause challenge to Rhode Island’s rules for out-of-state wine retailers.
The Sixth Circuit’s questions ranged from what an out-of-state retailer license could look like to the evidence Ohio offered for its wine shipping restrictions.
Cana alleged that PortoVino improperly terminated its wine distribution agreement. The motion to dismiss put payment terms, credit, and the distributor’s compensation claim in view.
