A pandemic-era program that allowed craft distilleries to ship products to legal age consumers across California ended in March. Now, a bill in the California Senate seeks to allow craft distilleries and breweries to ship to California customers, as well as increasing the limits on amounts that are allowed to be shipped from 2.5 liters per day to customer, to 4.5 liters.
Supporters note that California wineries saw sales increase to $57.6 billion last year from 4000 wineries, up from $5.5 billion in 1986 when 700 wineries were first permitted to ship within California.