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To: Michael M who wrote (66957)	12/17/1999 12:51:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Interesting, thanks. I was the person asking about wine growing and the environment actually... its just more farming but winemaking always conjures up visions of people picking grapes by hand and squishing them with their feet. No automation whatsoever - I'm sure its not like that. The few dot com companies that are trying to sell wine have all these challenges nobody else has. Its completely different than other brick and mortar businesses that feel threatened by the internet. The wine producers feel their product is stagnated by the mass of red tape the states load on alcoholic beverages. In Ca our grocery stores sell wine but in a lot of states you have to go to liquor stores that are licensed... mostly a taxation issue again. So wine producers want to offer their product to more people via the internet but the states are pushing back - this is stupid. A few weeks ago wine.com got caught selling direct into Massachusetts apparently - selling direct bypasses their regulated distributors where they get their tax money... now wine.com has to pay this fine and never sell into mass again or some such nonsense.