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December 11, 2008

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Jeremy Parzen

Ale, this is a great post and it really provides some insight to issues of provenance in our country: people are always looking for the rock bottom price but they don't realize that they are getting exactly what they pay for!

Pameladevi Govinda

Hi Alessandro, Sorry to hear about your wine reaching consumers through unauthorized channels. It's such a complicated issue because the three tier system is a archaic and it does add cost but having wine that could possibly be counterfeit or just in plain bad condition means the consumer looses out in the end. Beyond wine buyers and consumers that feel they are getting a good deal on the grey market, it must be heartbreaking for winemakers.

I wrote about this very subject a few years ago for Decanter and more recently for City magazine. If you're interested in reading the pieces I'll send you the URL

tracie b

is this gray market wine destined for private buyers or restaurants/retail? if it's the latter, how would they provide an invoice for the ABC?

AC

they cannot. they would not tell them. And yes it is illegal...but known to happen from time to time

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