Course: Wine's Complex Journey from Grape to Glass (OSH-WINJRNY)
Alcohol remains among the most heavily regulated consumer products in the US, governed by laws passed after Prohibition. Learn all that happens just to get a favorite wine into your glass tonight. Your instructor is the Virginia lawyer who guided Virginia wineries toward the first law allowing shipment of wine directly to your door. Since 2008 she has been representing Wine Institute, the national trade association of California wineries, in states on the east coast. She'll highlight market and government forces impacting where and how you buy wine in this country.