Alcoholic beverage licensees: winegrowers.

The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act contains various provisions regulating the application for, the issuance of, the suspension of, and the conditions imposed upon, alcoholic beverage licenses by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. Existing law authorizes a licensed winegrower to conduct specified activities, including authorizing a licensed winegrower to sell wine and brandy for consumption to consumers for on-premises consumption. This bill would expand the authorized activities that a licensed winegrower may conduct to include the production of spirits of wine, provided those spirits of wine are either blended into wine produced by the winegrower, sold to an industrial alcohol dealer, or destroyed by the winegrower. This bill would also make conforming changes with regard to a licensed winegrower's authorization to sell wine and brandy for consumption to consumers on the licensed premises.