Pinot Law

Hi. I’m Kevin, and I am fortunate enough to be the General Counsel for one of the newest wineries in northern Virginia — Bluemont Vineyard. It is has been about a year in the making, and since that time, we have crossed a lot of legal terrain. From ABC to TTB, it has been a long and interesting road. Not to mention the whole label approval process.

The purpose of this blog is to shed some light — and hopefully generate some discussion — on issues in wine law. I hope that in the months ahead, you can look to this website as an interesting resource for issues relating to wine and the law.

I am passionate about wine, and I love the law. And having worked in Washington, DC for the last ten years, I suppose I can consider my good friends at TTB my friendly neighbors (for those of you unfamiliar with TTB, they are the the Alcohol, Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau). There are a lot of topics out there we can discuss, but I suspect that most of my posts will fall into some of the following categories:

• Goings-on at the TTB;
• Interesting news stories where wine and law intersect;
• Developments in direct shipment law;
• TTB labelling developments (do you really need to know how many carbs are in your wine?);
• Whatever else catches my fancy.

Thanks for stopping by, and keep checking back for updates.