With wine becoming a fairly HUGE industry in Washington, the lawmakers in Olympia threw the wine industry a bone yesterday, with Governor Inslee signing a bill that will allow 18-20 year old students to taste small amounts of alcohol as part of wine, beer or culinary education programs.
The bill previously passed both chambers of the Legislature with flying colors(Senate 42-7, House 89-4), and now passes into law. Theoretically, the new law is so that students going to school looking to work in the wine, beer, spirits or culinary industry can now legally do what one can assume they have always done...taste the beverage they are supposed to be learning how to make/serve. Can you imagine someone going to several years of school the learn the chemistry behind wine making, just to find out later they can't stand the taste of wine?
Anyway...the new law is cute, because it does specify that the wine is to be tasted, and not consumed. So see...President Clinton was just ahead of the curve we he tasted, but did not inhale that marijuana.
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