date:Jan 29, 2013
While technology is giving North Coast wineries new tools to communicate directly with their customers, a tricky morass of laws dating back to Prohibition hampers their ability to sell and ship wine to consumers outside California.
But that is slowly changing, wine marketing executive Brian Baker told more than 250 people Thursday at the Direct to Consumer Wine Symposium in South San Francisco.
In 1997, there were only 17 states in which we could sell wine, said Baker, vice president of sales