1. Except as provided in section 123.187, a permit exclusively for the manufacture and sale of wine shall be known as a class “A” wine permit.

Terms Used In Iowa Code 123.173

  • Alcohol: means the product of distillation of any fermented liquor rectified one or more times, whatever may be the origin thereof, and includes synthetic ethyl alcohol. See Iowa Code 123.3
  • Division: means the alcoholic beverages division of the department of commerce established by this chapter. See Iowa Code 123.3
  • Manufacture: means to distill, rectify, ferment, brew, make, mix, concoct, or process any substance capable of producing a beverage containing more than one-half of one percent of alcohol by volume and includes blending, bottling, or the preparation for sale. See Iowa Code 123.3
  • premises: means all rooms, enclosures, contiguous areas, or places susceptible of precise description satisfactory to the administrator where alcoholic beverages, wine, or beer is sold or consumed under authority of a retail alcohol license, wine permit, or beer permit. See Iowa Code 123.3
  • sell: means a transfer of title or of the right to use by lease, bailment, or any other means, but excludes a wholesale transaction with a distributor or hearing aid specialist, and excludes the temporary, charitable loan or educational loan of a hearing aid without remuneration. See Iowa Code 154A.1
  • State: means a state, territory, or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See Iowa Code 152E.3
  • Wine: means any beverage containing more than six and twenty-five hundredths percent of alcohol by volume but not more than twenty-one and twenty-five hundredths percent of alcohol by volume obtained by the fermentation of the natural sugar contents of fruits or other agricultural products but excluding any product containing alcohol derived from malt or by the distillation process from grain, cereal, molasses, or cactus. See Iowa Code 123.3
 2. A class “A” wine permit allows the holder to manufacture and sell, or sell at wholesale, in this state, wine. The holder of a class “A” wine permit may manufacture in this state wine having an alcoholic content greater than seventeen percent by weight or twenty-one and twenty-five hundredths percent of alcohol by volume for shipment outside this state. All class “A” premises shall be located within the state.
 3. A class “A” wine permittee shall be required to deliver wine to a retail alcohol licensee, and a retail alcohol licensee shall be required to accept delivery of wine from a class “A” wine permittee, only at the licensed premises of the retail alcohol licensee. Except as specifically permitted by the division upon good cause shown, delivery or transfer of wine from an unlicensed premises to a licensed retail alcohol licensee’s premises, or from one licensed retail alcohol licensee’s premises to another licensed retail alcohol licensee’s premises, even if there is common ownership of all of the premises by one retail permittee, is prohibited.