Section 60-6A-22 - Definitions.
60-6A-22. Definitions.
As used in the Domestic Winery and Small Brewery Act [60-6A-21 to 60-6A-28 NMSA 1978]:
A. "brandy" means an alcoholic liquor distilled from wine or from fermented fruit juice;
B. "beer" means any fermented beverage containing more than one-half percent alcohol obtained by the fermentation of any infusion or decoction of barley, malt and hops or other cereal in water, and includes porter, beer, ale and stout;
C. "small brewer" means any person who owns or operates a business for the manufacture of beer but does not manufacture more than two hundred thousand barrels of beer per year;
D. "public celebration" means any state fair, county fair, community fiesta, cultural or artistic performance;
E. "wine" means the product obtained from normal alcoholic fermentation of the juice of sound ripe grapes or other agricultural products containing natural or added sugar, or any such alcoholic beverage to which is added grape brandy, fruit brandy or spirits of wine which is distilled from the particular agricultural products of which the wine is made, and other rectified wine products by whatever name which do not contain more than fifteen percent added flavoring, coloring and blending material and which contain not more than twenty-four percent of alcohol by volume, and includes vermouth;
F. "wine blender" means a person authorized to operate a bonded wine cellar pursuant to a permit issued for that purpose under the internal revenue laws of the United States but who does not have facilities or equipment for the conversion of grapes, berries or other fruit into wine and does not engage in the production of wine in commercial quantities; provided that any person who produces or blends not to exceed three hundred gallons of wine per year shall not, because of such production or blending, be considered a wine blender; and
G. "winer" means a person licensed as a winegrower.