Senate finds common ground on one wine bill


Lawmakers on Wednesday found a wine bill they could agree on in the 2019 Oregon Legislature.

The Senate, by a 28-0 vote, passed Senate Bill 112, which extends a tonnage tax to out-of-state wineries who source grapes from Oregon.

The bill now moves to the House.

The tax issue had been part of a much broader effort to regulate out-of-state wineries who make Oregon-designated wines, stemming from the labeling controversy involving the California winery Copper Cane.

But that larger bill uncorked…

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