Two years after wine lovers thought markets had been opened to them, a federal court in Indiana may have finally kicked down the doors.

In 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled state laws that set different rules for shipping wine to consumers based on whether the winery was in state or out of state were unconstitutional. At the time, the nation was a patchwork of 50 different sets of laws, creating a nightmare for wineries hoping to ship wine to out-of-state customers and for customers hoping to order hard-to-find wine.

At first, wine lovers thought all of that was going to change with the Supreme Court decision, which said the rules had to be the same. You could hear corks popping across the nation as wine lovers celebrated. Then reality hit.

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