27 CFR § 1.21 - Domestic producers, rectifiers, blenders, and warehousemen.
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identifier: "/us/cfr/t27/s1.21"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "27 CFR § 1.21 - Domestic producers, rectifiers, blenders, and warehousemen."
title_number: 27
title_name: "Alcohol, Tobacco Products and Firearms"
section_number: "1.21"
section_name: "Domestic producers, rectifiers, blenders, and warehousemen."
chapter_name: "ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO TAX AND TRADE BUREAU, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY"
subchapter_number: "A"
subchapter_name: "ALCOHOL"
part_number: "1"
part_name: "BASIC PERMIT REQUIREMENTS UNDER THE FEDERAL ALCOHOL ADMINISTRATION ACT, NONINDUSTRIAL USE OF DISTILLED SPIRITS AND WINE, BULK SALES AND BOTTLING OF DISTILLED SPIRITS"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "27 U.S.C. 203, 204, 206, 211 unless otherwise noted."
regulatory_source: "T.D. ATF-373, 61 FR 26098, May 24, 1996, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "1"
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# 1.21 Domestic producers, rectifiers, blenders, and warehousemen.
No person, except pursuant to a basic permit issued under the Act, shall:
(a) Engage in the business of distilling distilled spirits, producing wine, rectifying or blending distilled spirits or wine, or bottling, or warehousing and bottling, distilled spirits; or
(b) While so engaged, sell, offer or deliver for sale, contract to sell, or ship, in interstate or foreign commerce, directly or indirectly or through an affiliate, distilled spirits or wine so distilled, produced, rectified, blended, or bottled, or warehoused and bottled.