A bill to legalize refillable “growler” style bottles had it’s first hearing in committee in the Oregon legislature yesterday.

Oregon winemakers would like it if you could take an empty bottle to your local wine shop and fill it up.

State representative Jim Thompson says it's a way of buying wine that has a long history in other countries.

The "wine growler" bill is similar what breweries already do and at the same time reduce the amount of glass going into the waste stream.