While you're shopping for wine to deliver to Kansas, perhaps you'd enjoy a little Kansas wine history?   During the late 19^th century, Kansas’ flourishing wine industry fell victim to an unfortunate ideological contradiction. Even though the state had established a substantial grape growing and wine making culture, for a time Kansas also happened to be the home of Carrie Nation, a radical proponent of the early temperance movement who made a habit of attacking taverns with her hatchet. Even though she was arrested nearly 30 times throughout her life for these “hatchetations,” her influence was strongly felt, and Kansas became the first state to enact a statewide alcohol ban in 1881. It turned out that vintners did not have to give up their vines altogether at this time, as many began to sell grapes across state lines or for use in bootleg winemaking. It was not until the onset of the national prohibition in 1920 that vines were destroyed and winemaking came to a complete halt, only to be revived in 1985 with the passage of the Kansas Farm Winery Statute.