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Liquor Products Act, 1989 (Act No. 60 of 1989)

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Liquor Products Act: Regulations

Part 1 : Production and Compositional Requirements

13. Requirements for brandy [7(1)(b); 27(1)(a) and (d)]

 

(1) Brandy shall consist of a mixture of not less than 30 per cent, calculated on the basis of absolute alcohol, pot still brandy referred to in regulation 12 and not more than 70 per cent, calculated on the basis of absolute alcohol—

[Words preceding regulation 13(1)(a) substituted by regulation 4 of Notice No. R. 401 of 2014]

(a) wine spirit distilled from the fermented juice of the product of the vine to an alcohol content of at least 60 per cent; or

[Regulation 13(1)(a) substituted by regulation 4(a) of Notice No. R. 525 of 2012]

(b)        a spirit which—

(i) has been distilled from fermented sugar exclusively obtained from the pulp that remains after the juice has been pressed from grapes, with or without addition of water;
(ii) has been distilled to an alcohol content of at least 95 per cent; and
(iii) [Regulation 13(1)(b)(iii) deleted by regulation 4(b) of Notice No. R. 525 of 2012]
(c) a mixture of wine spirit referred to in paragraph (a), and spirit referred to in paragraph (b).

 

(2) Brandy shall have an alcohol content of at least 43 per cent.

 

[Regulation 13 substituted by regulation 5 of Notice No. R. 343 of 2003]