Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code 37.01 – Authorized Activities
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(a) The holder of a nonresident seller’s permit may:
(1) solicit and take orders for liquor from permittees authorized to import liquor into this state; and
(2) ship liquor into this state, or cause it to be shipped into this state, in consummation of sales made to permittees authorized to import liquor into the state.
(b) The holder of a nonresident seller’s permit who owns a winery outside of the state may conduct samplings of the kinds of alcoholic beverages the permit holder is authorized to produce, including tastings, at a retailer’s premises. An employee of the winery may open, touch, or pour the alcoholic beverages, make a presentation, or answer questions at a sampling event.
Terms Used In Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code 37.01
- Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
- Distilled spirits: means alcohol, spirits of wine, whiskey, rum, brandy, gin, or any liquor produced in whole or in part by the process of distillation, including all dilutions or mixtures of them, and includes spirit coolers that may have an alcoholic content as low as four percent alcohol by volume and that contain plain, sparkling, or carbonated water and may also contain one or more natural or artificial blending or flavoring ingredients. See Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code 1.04
- Liquor: means any alcoholic beverage, other than a malt beverage, containing alcohol in excess of five percent by volume, unless otherwise indicated. See Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code 1.04
- Premises: has the meaning given it in § 11. See Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code 1.04
(c) Any alcoholic beverages used in a sampling event under Subsection (b) must be purchased from the retailer on whose premises the sampling event is held. Subsection (b) does not authorize the holder of a nonresident seller’s permit or the permit holder’s agent to withdraw or purchase alcoholic beverages from the holder of a wholesaler’s permit or provide alcoholic beverages for a sampling event on a retailer’s premises that is not purchased from the retailer. The amount of alcoholic beverages purchased from the retailer may not exceed the amount of alcoholic beverages used in the sampling event.
(d) The holder of a nonresident seller’s permit or an agent or employee of the permit holder may provide samples or tastings of the kinds of distilled spirits the permit holder is authorized to produce in the manner authorized by § 14.07 for the holder of a distiller’s and rectifier’s permit or the agent or employee of the holder of a distiller’s and rectifier’s permit. Distilled spirits may legally be transported by the holder of a nonresident seller’s permit or the permit holder’s agent or employee to a retailer’s premises for the purpose of providing a sample or a tasting under this subsection. The cost of the distilled spirits provided for a sampling or tasting under this subsection is the responsibility of the holder of the nonresident seller’s permit providing the sampling or tasting.