Traveling Vineyard 2005 ruling "Granholm v. Heald", the Supreme Court held that Michigan and New York states violated the Dormant Commerce clause by permitting in-state wineries to ship directly to consumers but prohibiting out-of-state wineries to ship directly to consumers. Since then, individual states have been opening their shipping and allowing Traveling Vineyard to grow as a winery. The Wine Institute and Free The Grapes have been instrumental in lobbying for the ability for out-of-state wineries to ship wine directly to consumers. Traveling Vineyard Traveling Vineyard is an American company based in Ipswich, Massachusetts, that uses a direct-selling platform of in-home wine
Vineyard wines and combined with hundreds of years of the finest wine making traditions, terroir gives wines their distinctive taste and signature. A vignette is a 500-square-metre vineyard which is part of a larger consolidated vineyard. Investors purchase a piece of land within a vineyard, and outsource the grape maintenance and production operations to an outside grape grower or wine producers. Because they are contracting under a co-operative structure, they benefit from economies of scale and hence cheaper labour and operational costs. Vineyard A vineyard () is a plantation of grape-bearing vines, grown mainly for winemaking, but also raisins, table grapes