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Thinking Out Loud…Is Compliance Killing Small Wineries?

Monday, November 3, 2008

A few weeks back I proposed a ‘modest proposal’ – a simple plan for all wineries to pay (yet another) excise tax on every gallon of wine produced in order to free up shipping direct to consumers in every state of the union.  The concept is simple — pay a tax up front to the Federal [...]

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Another Modest Proposal

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

As a small, independent winery, I am sometimes overwhelmed with the multiple hats I wear, as I am sure many of my brothers & sisters are in this wine game.  In any one day I am topping barrels, negotiating grape prices, coordinating label production with bottling schedules and designer decisions, submitting COLAs, working my accounts payable/accounts receivable, following [...]

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