EPISODE #11 CALIFORNIA SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE TESTIMONY

About this episode

The episode discusses Fred Reno's testimony at a California legislative hearing on wine shipping rights in 1997.

Send us Fan Mail Episode #11 details the testimony I gave at a joint hearing of the California State Senate & Assembly on the Direct Shipping of wine to consumers in November of 1997, when I was President & CEO of Henry Wine Group in California. Henry Wine Group was the only Wholesale Distributor of wine in the country at the time and to this day still, which spoke out and backed the right of the wine producers to ship directly throughout the country to the consumer without goin...

People in this episode

Host: Fred Reno

Topics covered

• wine shipping
• California legislation
• wholesale distribution
• testimony
• wine producers rights

Keywords

• California Senate
• wine shipping
• Henry Wine Group
• testimony
• 1997

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Henry Wine Group

Places: California

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