Tex. Alco. Bev. Code § 16.07 · Chapter 16. WINERY PERMIT
WINE SAMPLING.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The holder of a winery permit may conduct wine samplings, including wine tastings, on the permitted premises. The holder of the permit may collect a fee for the wine sampling.
(b) A sampling event authorized by this section may not be advertised except by on-site communication or by direct mail.
(c) A person other than the holder of a permit or the holder's agent or employee may not dispense or participate in the dispensing of wine under this section.
(d) A person authorized to dispense wine under this section:
(1) may serve a person more than one sample; and
(2) may not serve a sample to a minor or to an obviously intoxicated person.
(e) A person who receives a sample may not remove the sample from the permitted premises.
(f) For the purposes of this code and any other law of this state or a political subdivision of this state, the holder of a permit, during the sampling of wine under this section, is:
(1) not the holder of a permit authorizing the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption; and
(2) not considered to have received any revenue from the on-premises sale of alcoholic beverages.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 998, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/AL/htm/AL.16.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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