Goals of Family Wineries of Washington State

• Sell more Washington wine
• Promote small family wineries
• Economic stimulus for craft wineries through simplification of regulation
• Economic free market – the only truly level playing field
• Put the responsible consumer’s interests first
• Maintain effective public safety regulations
• Public safety basis for all regulation
• Align goals of small wineries and Liquor Control Board
• Cooperation with Liquor Control Board
• Eliminate unenforceable or unenforced regulations
• Freedom to create and innovate
• Freedom of contract
• Streamline tax payment
• Streamline wine shipping (set an example for other states)
• Pricing flexibility
• Elimination of money’s worth restrictions
• Responsible advertising
• Joint advertising and promotion
  
• Sales on credit as wholesalers get from wineries
• Consignment sales
• Remove economic restrictions on internet wine sales
• Discounts reflecting savings in cost of sale
  
• Delivered pricing
• Gifts
• Remove all limitations on investment between tiers
• Make it easier to promote craft wine in a responsible manner
• Remove economic restrictions on wine sampling
• Unlimited tasting rooms
• Distributor dock sales
• Central fulfillment operations
• Promotional partnerships
• Elimination of license category restrictions
• Simplify licensing
• No state label approval copy requirement
• Annual tax reporting instead of monthly
• No price posting (achieved)
• No price holding
• Put the responsible wine consumer first
• Provide opportunities for consumers to support small wineries
• Establish direct relationships between responsible consumers and our members
• Wine events off premises
• Facilitate holding wine events
• Refilling of recyclable wine containers at wineries and retailers
• The Perfect Legal Climate for Wine

And whatever else our dynamic and innovative small Washington State wineries come up with in the future to responsibly sell Washington wine.