In what could be a huge boost for some e-commerce players, the U.S. Supreme Court today struck down state laws barring consumers from buying wine and having the seller ship it across state borders.The 5-4 decision, handed down early today, dealt directly with state laws in Michigan and New York but it also clears the way for direct-to-consumer, cross-border wine sales to greatly expand into some two dozen additional states — from Arizona and Arkansas to Massachusetts Ohio and Pennsylvania — where it had previously been off-limits because of state regulations.That in turn could provide a major boost to some niche players in the wine sales field, from small vineyards that have set up their own e-commerce sites to the largest online wine sales site, Wine.com.Earlier this month, Wine.com struck a deal with e-tail giant Amazon.com to sell wine on the Amazon site, a sign that many analysts took as confidence that the Supreme Court would rule in a manner that would provide for expanded online wine sales. Because the Internet is borderless, the cross-border shipping issue is critical to online sales of wine.Wine.com CEO George Garrick said the fundamental nature of the wine sales industry — with the vast… Read full this story
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