Winemaking business and legal coverage, including production, product handling, insurance, labeling, and regulatory developments.
A temperature requirement helps only if the parties can prove what happened to the product. Nic’s Beverages offers drafting lessons on cold storage, co-packer responsibility, temperature records, causation, and remedies when a shipment goes wrong.
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.
Who funds the discount at the register? Illinois’s 2022 proposal distinguished several kinds of beverage promotions and addressed retailer reimbursement for scan backs.
The first installment on Public Act 102-0442 covers changes affecting mead, taprooms, Class 3 brewers, self-distribution, and alternating premises.
A 2020 Minnesota ruling examines local ingredient requirements for farm wineries under the dormant Commerce Clause, with links to the opinion and briefs.
A review of Illinois’ 2020 cocktails-to-go bill examines eligible licenses, container language, and questions for brewpubs, taprooms, and distilling pubs.
A review of TTB’s temporary 2020 policies on beer destruction, tax relief, product returns, credit terms, gift cards, and retailer-related donations.
A 2020 wine-trademark ruling examines descriptive use of “buttery,” disputed infringement claims, and public access to the litigation record.
A vineyard-damage dispute examines federal liability for an independent contractor’s herbicide application, government control, and alleged special risks.
Part two examines TTB’s 2020 wine labeling and advertising amendments, including changes to standards of identity and other Notice 176 proposals.
TTB Industry Circular 2020-2 announced pandemic-related postponements of excise-tax payments and other filing deadlines for regulated businesses.
A 2020 overview considers restructuring options for breweries, wineries, distilleries, bars, and restaurants facing severe pandemic-related disruption.
