We've long been frustrated by the ban the great state of Massachusetts placed on buying wine online and having it shipped to our apartment from out of state. Sure there are tons of great wine shops around and we'd save on shipping if we did it the old-fashioned way, and of course we understand the nature of blue laws and puritanical libation restraints (this is Puritan City, after all). But sometimes, we can't find that elusive bottle of maple-syrupesque ice wine we bought once at some random liquor store a year ago anywhere else but on the world wide web. Believe us when we say it, we'd love nothing more than to support our local stores and avoid the weeks of waiting for our vino, but sometimes there just isn't any other way.

Along comes this proposal by Mr. Mitt Romney:

In the fall, Romney vetoed a bill prohibiting direct sales by wineries that produce more than 30,000 gallons of wine a year if they are represented by a Massachusetts wholesaler. That legislation would have benefited wholesalers at the expense of consumers, he said.
Under Romney’s new bill, any winery could ship to Massachusetts.

It goes without saying that we support anything that increases per-capita inebriation, but this makes us especially happy.
Via Steve Garfield.

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