Kudos to the Baltimore Sun! This week the Baltimore Sun published an editorial entitled Bottled Up. The editorial takes a swipe at the archaic wine shipping laws of Maryland. Anyone who has visited a winery in Maryland or outside of Maryland quickly learns they cannot have wine shipped to their home. In an attempt to appease consumers, a few years ago the state passed a law so that consumers can have wine shipped to a wine shop and then pick the wine up at the store. According to the editorial, in the last six years less than 66 cases of wine were shipped that way.

The editorial suggests that a change to the law will not occur during an election year. I hope they are wrong and that Maryland voters will contact their elected officials and demand their right to receive wine at their home.

Contact your state officials and demand your freedom to have wine shipped directly to your home. Also contact the chairperson of the Senate committee that deals with liquor laws, State Senator Joan Carter Conway. For more information about the Maryland General Assembly visit the website.

Hmmm – I wonder what Thomas Jefferson would have to say about the situation?

Cheers! Kathy