The Liquor Barn chain yesterday reversed itself and announced that it will resume buying products from state winemakers who advocate allowing wine sales at grocery stores.

Roger Leasor, president of Liquor Barn, which has three stores each in Louisville and Lexington, had said Tuesday that he would no longer buy from wineries that supported the grocers’ effort to change Kentucky law. He said doing so would be paying them to promote competition with Liquor Barn.

Kentucky is one of 16 states that do not allow wine sales in groceries. A bill to allow the sale failed in the legislative session earlier this year, but another effort is expected.

“I’m not going to fight with my neighbors,” Leasor said yesterday.

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