Majority Chief Chuck Schumer Meets with WineAmerica and Waterloo Container
December fifth – WATERLOO, NY–Senate Majority Chuck Schumer met on Friday, December 2 with leaders of WineAmerica, the Nationwide Affiliation of American Wineries, and homeowners of Waterloo Container, a big provider of bottles to the American wine business situated within the fabulous Finger Lakes wine area of upstate New York.
Scott Osborn, Erica Paolicelli, and Jim Trezise be part of Majority Chief SchumerWineAmerica President Jim Trezise, Vice Chair Scott Osborn of Fox Run Vineyards, and Board Member Erica Paolicelli of Three Brothers Vineyard met with their Senator and mentioned WineAmerica’s Nationwide Financial Influence Examine of the Wine Trade plus two legislative priorities.
The USPS Transport Fairness Act would enable the postal service to ship wine (and beer, and spirits) on to shoppers like FedEx and UPS have been doing for years. Federal funding for the Nationwide Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) of USDA to conduct a nationwide winery survey would fill an enormous data hole in assessing the true financial impression of the American grape and wine business.
US Senator Charles Schumer stated, “New York’s wine business is an financial powerhouse, and I’ve been proud to safe crucial advances to develop this business to new heights. From securing funding to construct the brand new USDA Grape Genetics Analysis Unit lab in Geneva, NY and making the Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act everlasting, to my assist of the business all through the pandemic within the Coronavirus Meals Help and EIDL packages, I’ve lengthy been an ardent supporter of New York’s wine business. It was a pleasure to go to with business leaders at Waterloo Container to debate firsthand the fruits of our labors to additional cement New York’s position as a worldwide chief in wine manufacturing.”
“We’re really honored that Chief Schumer took outing of his extremely busy schedule to satisfy with us,” stated WineAmerica President Jim Trezise. “The night time earlier than, he had attended the White Home state dinner with French President Emmanual Macron after getting the Senate to vote on averting a probably catastrophic rail strike and passing the historic Respect for Marriage Act. And but he nonetheless makes time for us. That’s really consultant democracy.”
When he was first elected to the Senate 24 years in the past, Chief Schumer vowed to go to all 62 New York counties yearly, and he has saved that promise. Waterloo Container is in Seneca County within the city of Waterloo, adjoining to Seneca Falls, the birthplace of Memorial Day and residential of the Ladies’s Rights Nationwide Historic Park.
“We’re so lucky to have Chuck Schumer as our Senator, and the Majority Chief, as a result of he really does signify the individuals of New York State,” stated Invoice Lutz, President and Proprietor of Waterloo Container, a family-owned enterprise that employs 80 individuals and distributes wine bottles nationally. “His lengthy and robust assist of the wine business has meant that we now have been in a position to thrive because it grows, which in flip means we are able to make use of extra individuals who in flip assist our area people. It’s an upward financial spiral”.
Jim Trezise offered the Senator with an infographic on the wine business’s impression in New York State–a complete of $14.9 billion, with 470 wineries, 92,371 jobs, $5.6 billion in wages, 5.6 million vacationer visits, $1.9 billion in vacationer expenditures, and practically $1.6 billion in whole taxes. The wine business’s whole financial impression on the nationwide stage is $276 billion, 25% above the $220 billion in 2017 based mostly on two research commissioned by WineAmerica and carried out by John Dunham & Associates, a distinguished financial analysis agency targeted on public coverage.
Senator Schumer has supported the wine business in some ways over time. He not too long ago advocated for the TTB’s adoption of further sizes of cans with a purpose to make wine in cans extra economically possible. He has all the time supported funding for the Market Entry Program to advertise the export of American agricultural merchandise together with wine in addition to main funding for analysis, together with for a USDA grape genomics facility in Geneva, NY. And as a real New Yorker, he received New York wines served completely on the 2013 Inaugural Luncheon of President Barack Obama. By the way, with Rep. Hakeem Jeffries the long run Democratic chief within the Home beginning in January, two Brooklynites will play key management roles in Congress.
“Senator Schumer has been to my vineyard a number of instances, and he all the time checks in on how we’re doing and the way he can assist,” stated Fox Run co-owner Scott Osborn. “He listens, he cares, and he acts.”
WineAmerica
WineAmerica is the Nationwide Affiliation of American Wineries headquartered in Washington, DC, with a concentrate on grassroots public coverage advocacy on the federal stage to guard and improve the enterprise local weather for the American wine business. The group additionally features a State and Regional Associations Advisory Council (SRAAC) of vineyard commerce affiliation leaders from across the nation, and represents over 400 members from 46 states.
