(Wine-Searcher) - NAWR director Tom Wark responds to the WSWA's view on the importance of the distribution tier.

When Tom Wark of the National Association of Wine Retailers (NAWR) read this week's interview with Dawson Hobbs of the Wine and Spirit Wholesalers of America, he was spurred to write a rebuttal on his blog. We reprint that rebuttal below.

"I am always surprised when individual wholesalers or their main trade and lobbying group, the Washington DC-based WSWA fails to chime in on key issues." – Liza Zimmerman, correspondent for Wine-Searcher.