Let's hope the statute of limitations is up, because I'm about to cop to buying my husband a bottle of port.
Years and years ago, my husband and I visited Napa Valley and tasted port at Prager Winery and Port Works.
Maybe 10 years ago, after moving to Baltimore, I had a bottle shipped here as a gift. I never suspected that would make me an outlaw until I mentioned the bottle's arrival to a co-worker. He clued me in, belatedly, to Maryland's ban on that sort of thing.
Looks like the ban isn't going anywhere, as The Sun's Julie Bykowicz reports.
"The head of a key Annapolis committee said Friday that it 'will be a challenge' for his panel to endorse an end to a ban on direct wine shipments," Bykowicz reports. "Wine-lovers and state wineries have been pushing to overturn the prohibition for years but have been blocked by the state's powerful liquor lobby and lawmakers sympathetic to the industry."
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