(CNN) - The case is being called "Pennsylvania vs. 2,447 Bottles of Wine."

Caught in the middle of a legal battle between the state and Arthur Goldman is a wine collection -- valued between $150,000 to $200,000 -- that once sat in his Malvern, Pennsylvania, cellar.

Goldman, who did not have a license to sell alcohol, had a private group of customers to whom he peddled his 97-page wine list, the District Attorney's Office of Chester County said.

All liquor stores in Pennsylvania are operated by the state's Liquor Control Board, and it is illegal for individuals to sell wine. It is also illegal to bring any alcohol, including wine, purchased outside of the state into Pennsylvania without having certain licenses.

People who move into the state must have their alcohol or wine collection movement approved by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board in advance, according to the Board's website.

The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board did not immediately return CNN's call for comment Tuesday.

After receiving a tip in 2013 that Goldman was selling wine illegally, an undercover State Police agent contacted Goldman and received the wine list that was available for sale "either from his personal wine cellar or that he could order that were not available in Pennsylvania," the release said.

The agent conducted multiple undercover purchases at his home. The District Attorney's office said, at the time of his arrest, that it believed Goldman sold the wines "knowing that it was illegal."

"This was not some casual exchange of wine between friends -- the defendant was running a highly organized, high-volume illegal business operation to make money," said First Assistant District Attorney Michael Noone. "This was a brazen violation of the law by someone who clearly knew better.'

Goldman is an attorney who practices in Pennsylvania.

His attorney, Peter E. Kratsa, told CNN that the entire collection was for personal consumption and not for sale.

"The Commonwealth could never establish that any portion of the collection was some sort of retail inventory, because it was not," Kratsa said, in an email to CNN.

What happens to the wine?

As for the 2,447 bottles of wine -- their fate is partly still up in the air.

According to settlement reached last week, Goldman and his wife, Melissa Kurtzman, will be allowed to pick out 1,047 bottles of wine from their collection to keep. Per the settlement, the couple will accept the wine "as is" -- knowing that the wine may not have been stored properly, as it was kept a police evidence room. Goldman will not face charges.

But what happens to the other 1,400 bottles of wine is what's leaving some queasy.

Pennsylvania State Police plans to destroy the 1,400 bottles of wine that the couple will forfeit, which is standard practice for any seized alcohol.

The Daily Local News in West Chester reported that Chester County Hospital filed a petition to take control of the remaining bottles of wine, in hopes of auctioning it off to raise funds for the nonprofit hospital. The hospital is part of an October Wine Festival meant to raise money for the hospital's cancer program. Calls to the hospital and its attorney were not immediately returned.

Kratsa said the couple hopes the hospital will get the wine, and that their wish has always been "that it be donated to an appropriate entity that can benefit from its sale, rather than be destroyed."