(a) No wholesaler licensed under § 57-3-203 and no manufacturer, winery, nonresident seller’s permit holder or any employee, agent, representative or salesperson employed by or representing any such wholesaler, manufacturer, winery or nonresident seller’s permit holder shall provide any services to or for the benefit of a retail food store wine licensee including, but not limited to, services involving shelving, dressing, displaying, or setting inventory owned or purchased by the retail food store licensee. A wholesaler may deliver wine to the premises of a retail food store wine licensee any time at which the wholesaler and the retail food store wine licensee’s manager mutually agree in accordance with the ordinary and customary practices of the two industries, regardless of whether the retail food store wine licensee is open to the public, and may deliver wine to a location upon the licensed premises as directed by the retail food store wine licensee.
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 57-3-815

  • Licensee: means any person to whom such license has been issued pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 57-3-101
  • Manufacturer: means and includes a brewer of high alcohol content beer, distiller, vintner and rectifier. See Tennessee Code 57-3-101
  • Month: means a calendar month. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Representative: when applied to those who represent a decedent, includes executors and administrators, unless the context implies heirs and distributees. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Wholesaler: means any person who sells at wholesale any beverage for the sale of which a license is required under this chapter. See Tennessee Code 57-3-101
  • Wine: means the product of the normal alcoholic fermentation of the juice of dried or fresh, sound, ripe grapes, fruit, or other agricultural products, with the usual cellar treatment and necessary additions to correct defects due to climatic, saccharine, and seasonal conditions, including champagne, sparkling, and fortified wine of an alcoholic content not to exceed twenty-one percent (21%) by volume. See Tennessee Code 57-3-101
  • Winery: means and includes any place or premises wherein wines are manufactured from any fruit or brandies distilled as the by-product of wine or other fruit or cordials compounded, and also includes a winery for the manufacture of wine. See Tennessee Code 57-3-101
(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), a wholesaler, including the wholesaler’s agents, servants, or employees, may provide merchandising assistance to a retail food store wine licensee pursuant to this subsection (b). Wholesalers may build and stock wholesaler displays of wine on the premises of a retail food store wine licensee. Wholesaler displays must not be part of the retail food store’s regular shelving. Wholesalers may replenish wholesaler displays for a maximum period of one (1) month after the initial display has been installed. Wholesalers shall not price the wholesaler displays and shall not provide any other services or things of value to the retail food store wine licensee.
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