S527 - ABC Omnibus 2023-24. (SL 2024-41)

Overview: Section 20 of S.L. 2024-41 defines a "distillery estate district" to mean a tract of real property or multiple contiguous or adjacent tracts of real property, separated only by a river, lake, or public or private road, on which a distillery, a winery, and at least three other establishments holding mixed beverages permits are located. Each of the permitted establishments must be under common ownership and control.

A mixed beverages permittee located in a distillery estate district that is under common ownership and control with the distillery may sell spirituous liquor produced at the distillery located in the distillery estate district in mixed beverages as if it were being sold at the distillery, and the spirituous liquor is not required to pass through the State warehouse.

A distillery located in the distillery estate district may conduct consumer tastings of spirituous liquor produced at the distillery anywhere in the distillery estate district.

On- and off-premises unfortified wine permittees located in the distillery estate district that are under common ownership and control with the distillery may also sell bottles of spirituous liquor produced at the distillery at retail for consumption off the premises as if those bottles were being sold in the distillery following a tour.

This section became effective July 1, 2024.