Alcoholic beverages: wine returns: winegrowers and bottlers: records.

The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, administered by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, regulates the sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages and the granting of licenses for the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcoholic beverages within the state. The act allows a person who has purchased wine from a licensed winegrower and has taken the wine from the state, to return that wine to the licensed premises of the winegrower from whom the wine was purchased. This bill would also allow for the return of wine taken out of state where the wine was purchased from a holder of a beer and wine wholesaler's license and an off-sale retail license that only sells wine. The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act also provides for specified recordkeeping requirements for winegrowers and bottlers of wine within specified counties. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive amendments to this requirement.