As used in the Domestic Winery, Small Brewery and Craft Distillery Act:
A. "brandy" means an alcoholic liquor distilled from wine or from fermented fruit juice;
B. "beer" means any fermented beverage containing more than one-half percent alcohol obtained by the fermentation of any infusion or decoction of barley, malt and hops or other cereal in water, and includes porter, beer, ale and stout;
C. "craft distiller" means a person licensed as a craft distiller who owns or operates a business for the manufacture of spirituous liquors but who does not manufacture more than one hundred fifty thousand proof gallons per license year;
D. "small brewer" means any person who owns or operates a business for the manufacture of beer but does not manufacture more than two hundred thousand barrels of beer per year;
E. "proof gallon" means a gallon of liquid at sixty degrees Fahrenheit that contains fifty percent ethyl alcohol by volume or its equivalent;
F. "public celebration" means any state fair, county fair, community fiesta or cultural or artistic performance;
G. "wine" means the product obtained from normal alcoholic fermentation of the juice of sound ripe grapes or other agricultural products containing natural or added sugar, or any such alcoholic beverage to which is added grape brandy, fruit brandy or spirits of wine that is distilled from the particular agricultural products of which the wine is made, and other rectified wine products by whatever name that do not contain more than fifteen percent added flavoring, coloring and blending material and that contain not more than twenty-four percent alcohol by volume, and includes vermouth;
H. "wine blender" means a person authorized to operate a bonded wine cellar pursuant to a permit issued for that purpose under the internal revenue laws of the United States but who does not have facilities or equipment for the conversion of grapes, berries or other fruit into wine and does not engage in the production of wine in commercial quantities; provided that any person who produces or blends not to exceed three hundred gallons of wine per year shall not, because of such production or blending, be considered a wine blender; and
I. "winer" means a person licensed as a winegrower.
History: 1978 Comp., § 60-6A-22, enacted by Laws 1983, ch. 280, § 3; 1985, ch. 217, § 1; 1998, ch. 109, § 3; 2011, ch. 110, § 2.
ANNOTATIONSThe 2011 amendment, effective July 1, 2011, added definitions of "craft distiller" and "proof gallon".
The 1998 amendment, effective July 1, 1998, substituted "a person licensed as a winegrower" for "any person who has facilities and equipment for the conversion in New Mexico, of grapes, berries or other fruit into wine and is engaged in the commercial production of wine; provided that any person who produces not to exceed two hundred gallons of wine per year for his own consumption shall not, because of such production, be considered a winer" near the beginning of Subsection G.