Liquor giant Diageo Americas, the owner of Tullahoma, Tenn.-based George Dickel whiskey, has sued the state of Tennessee over a nearly 80-year-old law requiring distillers to store their alcohol within the state’s borders.Diageo says the state law is unconstitutional and argues that the state’s enforcement of the law could eventually take jobs and some of the company’s operations outside of the state.The dispute began earlier this month when the state notified Diageo in a letter that it was in violation of the law because it was storing some of its George Dickel-branded whiskey at the company’s storage facilities in Louisville, Ky.According to state law, distillers must store their spirits either in the county where it is manufactured or in an adjacent county. The original law dates to 1937 and was amended in 2013 to allow for storage in adjoining counties.Diageo, however, contends in the lawsuit that while the law had been on the books, the state has not enforced it.Keep reading with our partners at The Tennessean.
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