STATE OF NEW YORK
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6180
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 21, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. METZGER -- (at request of the State Liquor Authority)
-- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
the Committee on Investigations and Government Operations
AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to the
definition of wine
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 36 of section 3 of the alcoholic beverage
2 control law, as amended by chapter 548 of the laws of 2008, is amended
3 to read as follows:
4 36. "Wine" means the product of the normal alcoholic fermentation of
5 the juice of fresh, sound, ripe grapes, or other [fruits or plants]
6 agricultural products with the usual cellar treatment and necessary
7 additions to correct defects due to climatic, saccharine and seasonal
8 conditions, including champagne, sparkling and fortified wine of an
9 alcoholic content not to exceed twenty-four per centum by volume. Wine
10 produced from fruits or plants or other agricultural products other than
11 grapes shall include appropriate prefixes descriptive of the fruit or
12 the product from which such wine was predominantly produced, and no
13 other product shall be called "wine" unless designated as artificial or
14 imitation wine.
15 § 2. Subdivision 20-a of section 3 of the alcoholic beverage control
16 law, as amended by chapter 571 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read
17 as follows:
18 20-a. "New York state labelled wine" means wine made from grapes or
19 other [fruits] agricultural products, at least seventy-five percent the
20 volume of which were grown in New York state.
21 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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