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It's high time that all state excise authorities considered permitting home delivery of (at least) wines.

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St Cosme Cotes- du - Rhone 2017 (Rs 2,575 in Bengaluru) - a 90% Syrah and 10% Grenache blend from the southern Rhone valley of France.

Alok Chandra Bengaluru
It’s high time that all state excise authorities considered permitting home delivery of (at least) wines. Doing this will partially decongest retail shops, give people a wider choice and extend the benefits of technology to both vendors and consumers.

Since wine sales are minuscule (about 1 per cent) compared to spirits or beer and goes to a relatively more affluent section of the society, wine could be used to test the concept —delivered in prescribed quantities within a given city/state. Orders could be placed online or on the phone; the mode of payment would, of course, be at the discretion of