Tennessee regulators expect 270 stores across the state to be among the first wave of supermarkets to sell wine under a new state law going into effect in July of 2016.

Keith Bell of the state Alcoholic Beverage Commission told lawmakers that those first stores include 109 in Middle Tennessee, 105 in Chattanooga and Knoxville regions and 56 in West Tennessee.

Bell said neither his agency nor the alcohol industry would be prepared if lawmakers decided to move up the date of supermarket wine sales to this July of 2015. A Nashville Democrat has proposed legislation that would allow wine to be in grocery stores this July. Representative Bo Mitchell does not want to force local communities to wait on the wine sales for 2016 if they are ready this year. His bill is being considered on Capitol Hill in Nashville.

No word yet on how many grocery stores in Rutherford County plan to sell wine.