Monday, April 10, 2006

Wine Politics

Arizona wine laws prevented Arizonians to buy wine out-of-state - without a distributor as a middleman - until last fall when the US District Court changed this injustice. The expected impact would be increased wine consumption and lower local prices but nothing of the sort so far.

Our unscientific, random test showed that the wine prices are in general 50-75% more expensive that in California. That lead us to order wine online and get it shipped via 3-day FedEx. That amounted to a 23% saving per bottle including shipping costs for a case of Alamos Malbec 2004.

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