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The government has opened a consultation on whether digital age verification should be used for alcohol sales in convenience stores and for home delivery.

The role of the consultation, which closes on 30 March, will examine whether technology has a place in age restricted sales of alcohol in retail and hospitality, as well as whether to "amend legislation in order to specify that for sales of alcohol that do not take place face to face, age verification should take place at the point of delivery as well as sale."

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Our relationship with alcohol remains complicated. We acknowledge the dangers that drinking presents -- from health effects to underage drinking to drunk driving deaths -- but the party keeps rolling. We even glorify alcohol consumption. Anderson Cooper downed a shot of tequila on live television to celebrate the New Year, and it's possible that few people gave it a second thought.

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Harrisburg – The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (PLCB) today announced that Rodrigo Diaz is the new executive director of the agency.

Additionally, the Board announced that Doug Hitz is the agency's new deputy executive director, and Jason Worley is the new chief counsel of the PLCB.

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Total wine category sales were expected to have fallen by 2% to 4% in volume 2023, according to preliminary figures published in Silicon Valley Bank's (SVB) 2024 'state of the US wine industry' report.

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Wine and spirits retailers in New York are fighting bills that would allow wine sales in grocery stores. "This legislation will hurt small businesses who have been selling wine for nearly a century," says Marc Grimaldi, owner of The Cellar D'or in Ithaca, New York.

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SOUTH Africa’s wine processing industry has centuries of tradition, supported by continuous technological enhancement. But what are the trends and opportunities for winemakers and technical suppliers?

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So much of what we smell and taste in each sip of wine has to do with decisions made by the winemaker, like when they harvest grapes, how they treat them once harvested, and how and when they age their juice.

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FAIRMONT -- Cannabis is getting the old college try again in the West Virginia State Legislature. Del. Evan Hansen, D-79, introduced HB-4873 into the House of Delegates, which seeks to establish a framework under which adults over the age of 21 can legally consume cannabis products in the state of West Virginia. Del. Joey Garcia, D-76, of Fairmont, is a cosponsor on the bill.

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Taking away the largest serving of wine by the glass – in most cases the 250ml option – led to an average reduction in the amount of wine sold at pubs and bars of just under 8%, new research led by a team at the University of Cambridge has discovered.

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SCOTTISH LABOUR has renewed calls for a sales levy on booze to fund treatment services, nearly six years after minimum unit pricing was introduced.

The SNP Scottish government brought in minimum unit pricing for alcohol in 2018 in what has been viewed as a relatively successful attempt to curb consumption, but the measure does not generate extra cash for the public purse.

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