Definition
Specially sweetened natural wine is the product made by adding to natural wine of the winemaker’s own production a sufficient quantity of pure dry sugar, or juice or concentrated juice from the same kind of fruit, separately or in combination, to produce a finished product having a total solids content in excess of 17 percent by weight and an alcoholic content of not more than 14 percent by volume, and shall include extra sweet kosher wine and similarly heavily sweetened wines.
Cellar treatment
Specially sweetened natural wines may be blended with each other, or with natural wine or heavy bodied blending wine in the further production of specially sweetened natural wine only, if the wines so blended are made from the same kind of fruit. Wines produced under this section may be cellar treated under the provisions of section 5382(a) and (c). Wine spirits may not be added to specially sweetened natural wine.
Pub. L. 85–859, title II, § 20172 Stat. 1386 Pub. L. 89–44, title VIII, § 806(c)(4)79 Stat. 164 Pub. L. 90–61982 Stat. 1237 (Added , , ; amended , , ; , §§ 3(b), 4, , .)
Editorial Notes
Prior Provisions
act Aug. 16, 1954, ch. 736 68A Stat. 671 Pub. L. 85–859A prior section 5385, , , consisted of provisions similar to those comprising this section, prior to the general revision of this chapter by .
Amendments
Pub. L. 90–619, § 3(b)1968—Subsec. (a). , substituted “not more than 14 percent” for “less than 14 percent”.
Pub. L. 90–619, § 4Subsec. (b). , authorized cellar treatment of specially sweetened natural wines, special natural wines, and agricultural wines.
Pub. L. 89–441965—Subsec. (a). substituted “total solids content in excess of 17” for “sugar solids content in excess of 15”.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date of 1968 Amendment
Pub. L. 90–619section 6 of Pub. L. 90–619section 5373 of this titleAmendment by effective on first day of first month which begins 90 days or more after , see , set out as a note under .
Effective Date of 1965 Amendment
Pub. L. 89–44section 806(d)(2) of Pub. L. 89–44section 5383 of this titleAmendment by effective , see , set out as a note under .