In spite of the outbreak of coronavirus, you can now soothe your pandemic stress with alcohol delivered straight to your door. The Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority is now allowing distilleries to ship directly to in-state customers.
The company says the effort is to help ease the economic strain on distilleries in Virginia that have existing agreements with ABC to manufacture and sell their products as agents of the ABC at their distillery site.
There are some rules, however.
- No distiller may sell more than six bottles of spirits or two cases of low alcohol beverage coolers to any one consumer or licensee per month.
- Bottles of spirits shipped may be no larger than 1.75 liters.
- The distiller must ensure the recipient is at least 21 years of age.
- Direct shipment must be made by an approved common carrier (currently FedEx or UPS).
- Signature of an individual 21 years of age or older is required for delivery.
Distilleries that have previously been able to deliver their products directly to their consumer’s curbside or in the parking lot of distillery sites, will remain in place. This is in addition to delivering products by way of distillery employees or third party services such as Grubhub and Uber Eats
