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Law's For Shipping Wine to Maine

Guide To Law's For Shipping Wine
In Maine

NOTE: Effective September 15, 1997, the Maine reciprocity provisions set forth here that was passed in 1993 will no longer be effective. A new section, MRSA § 2077-B, will provide that a person may not sell, furnish, deliver or purchase liquor from an out-of-state company by mail order.

NOTE: Maine is NO LONGER A RECIPROCAL STATE, but for historians, Maine's former reciprocity statute became effective on April 15, 1993, and allowed direct shipments of limited quantities of beer or wine if the following conditions existed:

  • the person receiving the shipment must not be under 21 years of age;
  • the person receiving the shipment must obtain a $5 permit for every shipment of malt liquor that is received and a $10 permit for every shipment of wine that is received;
  • the receiver cannot be a licensee of the state.

Additionally, a person who lives in a state that affords Maine residents an equal reciprocal shipping privilege may ship, for personal use and not for resale, malt liquor or wine with the following requirements:

  • the producer and shipper must be unlicensed in Maine;
  • the product must be one that is not normally for sale in the state of Maine to licensees, and the product must be clearly identified by label;
  • shippers located outside the state of Maine may not advertise interstate malt liquor and wine shipments in the state of Maine;
  • the product must be delivered by common carrier and delivery can only be made after presentation of the required permit and proof of identification.

Maine Public Law C.60, 1993, approved by governor April 15, 1993, enacting 28-A MRSA§2077-A.