Returning for a moment to the unintended consequences of Prohibition in the United States, the segment of the alcohol industry that struggled the most after repeal was the wine business. Beer and liquor rebounded relatively quickly, but American

Drinking wine from a box is one thing, but have you ever heard of a wine brick? During Prohibition, which was enacted in 1920, California vineyards used wine bricks to work around federal laws and sell alcoholic beverages. Wineries would ship tigh

Bad news for wine investors and collectors across the United States: UPS and FedEx are cracking down on the interstate shipment of wine, restricting the number of states in which many purveyors of hard-to-find, limited-production wines can do busines