The 21st Amendment: Repeal of Prohibition
After a decade of the "noble
experiment", Congress passed the 21st Amendment. It ended national
Prohibition and transferred the authority to allow or ban production and sale
of alcohol to individual states. Many states relegated this authority to the
county level. Counties in some states prohibit alcohol to this day. The history
of wine production and sales since the repeal of Prohibition has been governed
by the 21st Amendment, not the free trade mandates of the U.S. Constitution.
Because every state has the power to make
their own laws regarding wine sales, it has effectively made commercial wine
distribution a convoluted mess. Marketing wine in the U.S. continues to be a
difficult and frustrating task, especially for smaller wineries.
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