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Virginia Legislators Graciously Consider Lifting 70-Year Ban on Sangria
Friday, January 25th, 2008Fresh off saving the Old Dominion from the scourge of frozen beer on a stick last summer, Virginia’s Alcohol Beverage Control is now taking aim at Spanish and Latin restaurants that serve sangria, because the red wine and brandy in the drink violates a 70-year-old, post-Prohibition law forbidding the mix of wine and spirits. A bartender at a tapas restaurant right down the road from me is looking at a year in jail for serving the drink.
Legislators are considering amending the law, but only to allow sangria. Other drinks mixing wine, beer, and/or spirits would still be verboten.
What, no boilermakers in Virginia? HERESY!
Stupid laws based on outdated “morals.”
Its also illegal in VA to have sex with your sister/brother/mother/father…but obviously someone in the VA legislature has been breaking that law often…maybe more than one.
My mistake…the above should read that they are the byproduct of such an illegal union. My apologies for any confusion…
Sangria doesn’t necessarily require brandy, although some recipes do use it. Sangria recipes in Spain are like Uncle Jim’s chili recipe in Texas…family secrets.
And a boilermaker is beer and whiskey, not wine. Does the law prohibit mixing beer and spirits as well? How about beer and wine? (A black velvet is Guinness and champagne.)
Guess I’m heading to VA any time soon. Only wine I drink is Port. Which would be illegal under this law.
I’m pretty sure I can get Port wine at any grocery store, wine shop, and restaurant in VA, as well as the state run liquor stores. Port is a mixture of wine and either cognac or brandy, clearly a violation.
Is there any question that the a nanny state and police state are result in such laws? I thought alcohol prohibition ended years ago! The law makes as much sense as Mr Anslinger did in his antics in the 1930’s!
No Irish Car Bombs? InconCIEVable!