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interpretation of the state's Beverage Containers
Deposit statutes provides for an exemption for personal
use. Wine in a daily amount not to exceed 576 fluid
ounces (4.5 gallons or 17034.35 ml or twenty two 750
ml containers) may be shipped into the state. (¶8008;
Code of Iowa§455C.5).
Effective July 1, 1996,
a winery licensed or permitted pursuant to laws
regulating alcoholic beverages in a state which
affords this state an equal reciprocal shipping
privilege may ship into this state by private common
carrier, to a person twenty-one years of age or
older, not more than eighteen liters of wine per
month, for consumption or use by the person (HF
2315, effective July 1, 1996).
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