2017 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 35 - Agriculture
Marketing and Sales
Article 29.5 - Colorado Wine Industry Development Act
§ 35-29.5-102. Definitions
As used in this article, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Board" means the Colorado wine industry development board, created in section 35-29.5-103.
(1.5) "Eastern slope" means the area east of the continental divide.
(2) "Fruit product" means any juice, must concentrate, or extract from fruit whether or not partially fermented.
(2.5) "Grand valley viticultural area" means the federally defined area in Mesa county in which wine grapes are grown.
(3) "Grape product" means any juice, must concentrate, or extract made from vinifera grapes, true or hybrid, whether or not partially fermented.
(3.5) "Western slope" means the area west of the continental divide, excluding the grand valley viticultural area.
(4) "Wine" means any vinous liquor containing not more than twenty-one percent alcohol by volume and produced in all respects in conformity with the laws of the United States and the regulations of the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, and firearms of the United States department of the treasury or any of its successor agencies.
(5) "Wine-growing" means the cultivation in commercial quantities of vinifera grapes in this state.
(6) "Wine-making" means the ownership and control of or the management of a licensed winery in this state.
