Winemaking on premises facility license

(a) A winemaking on premises facility license may be issued as provided in this section for a business, located in a jurisdiction where the establishment of a winery is permitted pursuant to § 57-3-207, where individual customers who are twenty-one (21) years of age or older may purchase ingredients and rent the equipment, time, and space to manufacture wine, as defined in § 57-3-101, for personal use in an amount not to exceed the maximum amount that a private individual in that person‘s own home may manufacture pursuant to § 57-3-207(e). Any applicant for licensure under this section shall submit a verified, written application to the commission on the proper form authorized to be prescribed and furnished in this section, and the application may be granted by the commission, subject to the restrictions of this chapter. Subject to the limitations of subsection (b), any winemaking on premises facility license issued pursuant to this section shall authorize the holder of the license and the holder’s customers to manufacture, but not rectify, wine, and the winemaking on premises facility license shall authorize the holder of the license and the holder’s customers to place the wine in containers or bottles. (i) The land, buildings and machinery used in the commercial production of farm products and nursery stock. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105Commission: means the alcoholic beverage commission, except as otherwise provided. See Tennessee Code 57-3-101Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.gallons: means a wine gallon or wine gallons, of one hundred and twenty-eight ounces (128 oz. See Tennessee Code 57-3-101Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.License: means the license issued pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 57-3-101Licensee: means any person to whom such license has been issued pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 57-3-101Manufacture: means and includes brewing high alcohol content beer, distilling, rectifying and operating a winery. See Tennessee Code 57-3-101Manufacturer: means and includes a brewer of high alcohol content beer, distiller, vintner and rectifier. See Tennessee Code 57-3-101Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105signed: includes a mark, the name being written near the mark and witnessed, or any other symbol or methodology executed or adopted by a party with intention to authenticate a writing or record, regardless of being witnessed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105Wine: means the product of the normal alcoholic fermentation of the juice of dried or fresh, sound, ripe grapes, fruit, or other agricultural products, with the usual cellar treatment and necessary additions to correct defects due to climatic, saccharine, and seasonal conditions, including champagne, sparkling, and fortified wine of an alcoholic content not to exceed twenty-one percent (21%) by volume. See Tennessee Code 57-3-101Winery: means and includes any place or premises wherein wines are manufactured from any fruit or brandies distilled as the by-product of wine or other fruit or cordials compounded, and also includes a winery for the manufacture of wine. See Tennessee Code 57-3-101written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105(b) (1) Except for wine produced in the process of testing equipment or recipes, and producing samples to be distributed pursuant to subdivision (b)(2), a license holder shall not personally manufacture wine that is not intended for the personal use of the license holder on the premises of the winemaking on premises facility. Nothing in this subdivision (b)(1) shall be construed to prohibit a license holder from assisting the license holder’s customers who are engaged in the manufacture of wine on the premises of the facility. (2) A winemaking on premises facility licensed under this section may serve wine that is produced on the premises of the facility without charge as complimentary samples for tasting at the facility. Samples may be consumed at the premises only by a person who has a nonrefundable contract to manufacture at the premises, and the samples may not exceed one ounce (1 oz.) per sample. All wine produced at a winemaking on premises facility shall be removed from the premises by the customer or license holder who manufactured the wine and may only be used for home consumption and the personal use of the customer or license holder. (c) Each applicant for a winemaking on premises facility license issued pursuant to this sect