{"id":487,"date":"2020-03-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/norrismclaughlin.com\/llb\/2020\/03\/17\/pennsylvania-liquor-control-board-shuts-down-special-orders-of-wine-and-spirits-a-coronavirus-covid-19-update\/"},"modified":"2020-03-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T00:00:00","slug":"pennsylvania-liquor-control-board-shuts-down-special-orders-of-wine-and-spirits-a-coronavirus-covid-19-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/norrismclaughlin.com\/llb\/in-the-news\/pennsylvania-liquor-control-board-shuts-down-special-orders-of-wine-and-spirits-a-coronavirus-covid-19-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board Shuts Down Special Orders of Wine and Spirits: A Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/norrismclaughlin.com\/llb\/2223\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board<\/a> issued a terse note to suppliers of wine and spirits that they were shutting down the Special Order program in Pennsylvania due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Special Order Program<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The Special Order program, or \u201cSLO,\u201d was a mechanism in which suppliers could sell their wine and spirits to retailers across Pennsylvania. The retailers would have to make a Special Order to the State Store who, in turn, would order the requested products from the supplier and, ultimately, the retailer could pick up the special orders from it\u2019s designated State Store. For some suppliers of spirits and wine, this was the only effective route to the Pennsylvania marketplace since the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board does not list all supplier spirit or wine offerings at the actual State Store locations. Instead, suppliers must follow a rigorous application of tasting in order to vie for a spot on a State Store shelf or \u201cregular listing\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This will have significant damaging effects on any suppliers relying upon the Special Order program in Pennsylvania in getting their products to Pennsylvania retailers and consumers.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Additional Coronavirus Updates for Pennsylvania Food and Beverage Businesses<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/norrismclaughlin.com\/llb\/2246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update for Pennsylvania Food and Beverage Businesses<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/norrismclaughlin.com\/llb\/2244\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grocery and Convenience Stores\u2019 Beer and Wine Sales: A Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/norrismclaughlin.com\/llb\/2247\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Coronavirus Survival Kit for Breweries and Restaurants<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<section class=\"post_content\">\n<section class=\"post_content\">\n<section class=\"post_content\">\n<section class=\"post_content\">\n<section class=\"post_content\">\n<section class=\"post_content\">\n<p class=\"post_content\">For information regarding national and state liquor law matters or general manufacturing and distribution advice, please contact our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/norrismclaughlin.com\/llb\/380\">Liquor Law, Licensing, Manufacturing, and Distribution Practice Group<\/a>: Liquor Law Department Chair\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/norrismclaughlin.com\/llb\/379\">Theodore J. Zeller III, Esquire <\/a>(<a href=\"mailto:tzeller@norris-law.com\">tzeller@norris-law.com<\/a>); <a href=\"https:\/\/norrismclaughlin.com\/llb\/987\">David C. Berger, Esquire<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"mailto:dberger@norris-law.com\">dberger@norris-law.com<\/a>) for Pennsylvania and New Jersey retail and manufacturing licensing; or contact our offices at 610-391-1800.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<footer><\/footer>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board issued a terse note to suppliers of wine and spirits that they were shutting down the Special Order program in Pennsylvania due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[248,15,250,81,66],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.1 (Yoast SEO v22.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board Shuts Down Special Orders of Wine and Spirits: A Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update - Legal Liquor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/norrismclaughlin.com\/llb\/in-the-news\/pennsylvania-liquor-control-board-shuts-down-special-orders-of-wine-and-spirits-a-coronavirus-covid-19-update\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board Shuts Down Special Orders of Wine and Spirits: A Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Yesterday, the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board issued a terse note to suppliers of wine and spirits that they were shutting down the Special Order program in Pennsylvania due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/norrismclaughlin.com\/llb\/in-the-news\/pennsylvania-liquor-control-board-shuts-down-special-orders-of-wine-and-spirits-a-coronavirus-covid-19-update\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Legal Liquor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-03-17T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/norrismclaughlin.com\/llb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/12\/wine-martini-glass.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2121\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1414\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Theodore J. 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