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PUBLIC LAW 86-859-8EPT. 2, 1968

ing material consisting of either water, or pure dry sugar, or a combination of water and pure dry sugar, m such total volume as may be necessary to reduce the natural fixed acid content of the mixture of juice and such ameliorating materal to a minimum of 5 parts per thousand (calculated before fermentation and as tartaric acid), but in no event shall the volume of such ameliorating material exceed 35 percent of the total volume of such ameliorated juice (calculated exclusive of p u l p). The wine so made shall be transferred to a reserve inventory established as regulation issued by the Secretary or his delegate shall require; except that such wine containing less than 14 percent alcohol by volume after complete fermentation, or after complete fermentation and sweetening, need not be transferred into reserve inventory if all claim to further amelioration is waived. "(3) The wines in the reserve inventory may be sweetened with dry sugar in an amount not exceeding, for the aggregate of the inventory— " (A) the dry sugar equivalent of any volume of authorized ameliorating material not used for wine so transferred, plus " (B) nine-tenths pound of dry sugar for each gallon of wine so transferred and such unused ameliorating material combined. " (4) Wines so reserved may be blended to^jether and sweetened with pure dry sugar to the extent provided m paragraph (3) or with concentrated or unconcentrated grape juice, and may have wine spirits added if such wine contains less than 14 percent of alcohol by volume at the time of such addition (unless wine spirits were previously added). Any wines withdrawn from reserve inventory shall have an alcoholic content of less than 14 percent by volume and a total solids content not exceeding 21 percent by weight, except that, if wine spiriis have been added and the alcoholic content is 14 percent by volume or more, the sugar solids content shall not exceed 15 percent by weight. " (5) The winemaker shall maintain and balance for his reserve inventory such accounts as regulations issued by the Secretary or his delegate shall prescribe. "SEC. 5384. AMELIORATION AND SWEETENING LIMITATIONS FOR NATURAL FRUIT AND BERRY WINES. " (a) IN GENERAL.—To natural wine made from berries or fruit other than grapes, pure dry sugar may be added to the juice in the fermenter, or to the wine after fermentation; but only if such wine has less than 14 percent alcohol by volume after complete fermentation, or after complete fermentation and sweetening, and a total solids content not in excess of 21 percent by weight. "(b)

RESERVE F R U I T AND BERRY W I N E S. —

"(1) Any natural fruit or berry wine (other than grape wine) of a winemaker's own production may, if not made under subsection (a) of this section, be ameliorated to correct high acid content, and, whether or not ameliorated, may be reserved as herein provided. Separate reserve inventories shall be established for wines made from each different kind of fruit. "(2) Pure dry sugar may be used in the production of wines under this subsection for the purpose of correcting natural deficiencies. The quantity of sugar so used shall not exceed the quantity which would have been required to adjust the juice, prior to fermentation, to a total solids content of 25 degrees (Brix). Such sugar shall be added prior to the completion of fermentation of the wine. After such addition of the sugar, the wine or juice shall be treated and accounted for as provided in section

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