Christopher Missick and his wife got into the wine business three years ago when they bought a winery along the west side of Seneca Lake. Last year he decided to break his Villa Bellangelo wines into the lucrative New York City market. "We don’t have access to the huge distribution houses down there and we work with, for the most part, really high quality, but small family distributors," Missick said. Missick’s distributor and other small operations working in New York City have their warehouse across the river in New Jersey, where real estate is cheaper. This year, lawmakers in New York are considering the implementation of what’s called an "at rest" law, which proponents say will generate better competition and create jobs in the state. Under an "at rest" law, bottles of wine and spirits would have to sit in New York state for up to 48 hours before they could be sold. While the direct impact will be on distributors working mainly in the New York City area, many upstate wineries like
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