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12-47-420, Vintner's Restaurant License

(1) A vintner's restaurant license may be issued to a person operating a vintner's restaurant and also selling malt, vinous, and spirituous liquors in the place where such liquors are to be consumed.

 

(2) During the hours established in section 12-47-901(5)(b), vinous liquors manufactured by a vintner's restaurant licensee on the licensed premises may be:

(a) Furnished for consumption on the premises;

(b) Sold to independent wholesalers for distribution to licensed retailers;

(c) Sold to the public in sealed containers for off-premises consumption. Only vinous liquors fermented, manufactured, and packaged on the premises by the licensee shall be sold in sealed containers.

(d) Sold at wholesale to licensed retailers in an amount up to fifty thousand gallons per calendar year.

 

(3) Every person selling malt, vinous, and spirituous liquors pursuant to this section shall purchase such malt, vinous, and spirituous liquors, other than those that are manufactured at the licensed vintner's restaurant, from a wholesaler licensed pursuant to this article; except that not more than five hundred dollars' worth of malt, vinous, and spirituous liquors may be purchased during each calendar year from a retail liquor store. Each such purchase of malt, vinous, and spirituous liquor shall be evidenced by a purchase receipt showing the name of the retail liquor store, the date of purchase, a description of the liquor purchased, and the price paid for such purchase. Such receipt shall be retained and made available to state and local licensing authorities at all times during business hours.

 

(4) A vintner's restaurant licensee shall sell malt, vinous, and spirituous liquor for on-premises consumption only if at least fifteen percent of the gross on-premises food and drink income of the business of the licensed premises is from the sale of food.   

 

(5)(a) Subject to paragraph (b) of this subsection (5), it is unlawful for an owner, part owner, shareholder, or person interested directly or indirectly in a vintner's restaurant license to conduct, own either in whole or in part, or be directly or indirectly interested in another business licensed pursuant to this article.  

(b) A person interested directly or indirectly in a vintner's restaurant license may conduct, own in whole or in part, or be directly or indirectly interested in a license described in section 12-47-401(1)(j) to (1)(t), or in a financial institution referred to in section 12-47-308(4).