The most important thing to know about this experiment is that I desperately wanted it to succeed. I make my living writing about wine people can afford to buy, and what’s more affordable than $3 wine you can pick up at the supermarket without scores, confusion or wine snobbery? But…
The Trump administration, in its crusade against the European Union and to bolster the bottom line of some of the world’s richest companies, wants to tax the hell out of your bottle of cheap French rosé. It has already imposed a 25% tariff on most French, Spanish, German and British…
A federal judge has called two key laws regulating liquor sales in Texas arbitrary and irrational. One possible result of his ruling? A string of standalone Walmart liquor stores across the state and maybe even package stores from other publicly held chains like Kroger and Target. U.S. District Judge Robert…
Texas’ liquor laws, if not the most confusing in the country (thank you, Utah), are confusing enough. So the battle in the Legislature, pitting Walmart, Costco and Kroger against some of the state’s best-known liquor chains, fits perfectly. It’s not necessarily a fight between big companies out to get the…
Want to buy a variety of brand-name wine, beer, and liquor practically at cost? Or shop an almost unprecedented number of Texas-made whiskeys, craft beers, and wines? Or choose from thousands and thousands of alcoholic beverages, a selection that dwarfs almost every other retailer in the area? Then thank the…
Sometime in the next six weeks, you’ll almost certainly see TV commercials with Regina Montoya-Coggins doing all sorts of touchy-feely things. Flip the channel, and you’ll probably see the same sort of commercial, but with Pete Sessions doing the hugging this time. Don’t know who Sessions and Montoya-Coggins are? Don’t…
