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Walter Marston, legal counsel for the Virginia Wine Wholesalers Association, does not credit the Farm Wineries Act for the growth of the state’s wine industry.
“All during those 25 years, a huge number of out-of-state wineries were doing business here with distributors and succeeding,” he said.
Marston said wineries’ other privileges, including being able to sell alcohol at festivals and tasting rooms without serving food and preferential placement in state liquor stores, are more to thank for the growth of the Virginia’s wine industry.
Furthermore, he said, the idea of self-distribution undermines the three-tier system of alcohol distribution, which was instituted after prohibition was repealed in 1933. The system requires alcohol producers to sell their wares to a distributor who then sells the product to retailers.
Marston said the system prevents large corporations from dominating the alcoholic
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