Most information about the three-tier system is provided by wholesalers or regulators who defend the system despite its obvious flaws. Here are more objective resources that tell a more objective story

BOOKS

Wine Politics: How Governments, Environmentalists, Mobsters, and Critics Influence the Wines We Drink, By Tyler Colman

Last Call: Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, By Daniel Okrent

Fermenting Change: The Politics, Corruptions and Reform of the Three-Tier System, By Tom Wark

Toward Liquor Control, By Raymond Fosdick

LEGAL RESOURCES

Uncorking a Seventy-Four-Year-Old Bottle: A Toast to the Free Flow of Liquor Across State Borders — Yale Law Journal

Constitutional Law - Challenging Anti-Commerce State Regulatory Schemes in Light of the Supreme Court's Admonition of Protectionist Alcohol Regulations; Granholm v. Heald — Wyoming Law Review

Prohibition and Repeal: A Short History of the Wine Industry’s Regulation in the United States — Journal of Wine Economics

COMMENTARY

In the Age of Instant Everything, the Three-Tier System Persists, for Better or Worse, By Tim McKirdy —VinePair

It's not Prohibition, so ditch the old alcohol laws, By Jon Riches — AZ Central

America's Alcohol Distribution System Means You Can't Always Find the Whisky You Want, By Susannah Skiver Barton — Whisky Advocate

Will the US’s three-tier distribution system survive? By Tom Bruce-Gardyne — The Spirits Business

How Much Political Clout Does $107m Buy?, By Liza Zimmerman — Wine Searcher

Wine Wars: How We Have Painted Ourselves into a Regulatory Corner, By Rachel M Perkins — Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law

WEBSITES

Fermentation Substack Newsletter

ShipCompliant Blog

Irish Liquor Lawyer

ShipCompliant Wine Distribution Rules

National Association of Wine Retailers

Fermentation Three-Tier System Archives