(1) Tastings shall be conducted on the licensee’s retail liquor store or liquor-licensed drugstore license premises and only by a person who has completed a server training program that meets the standards established by the state liquor laws and is an employee of a retail liquor store or a liquor-licensed drugstore licensee, or a representative, employee, or agent of the licensed wholesaler, brewpub, distillery pub, manufacturer, limited winery, importer, or vintner’s restaurant promoting the alcohol beverages for the tasting; and

(2) The alcohol beverage used in tastings must be purchased through a licensed wholesaler, licensed brewpub, licensed distillery pub, or winery licensed pursuant to Section 44-3-403, C.R.S., as amended, at a cost that is not less than the laid-in cost of the alcohol beverage.

(3) The size of an individual alcohol sample shall not exceed one (1) ounce of malt or vinous liquor or one-half (0.5) ounce of spirituous liquor.

(4) Tastings shall not exceed a total of five (5) hours in duration per day, which need not be consecutive.

(5) The licensee may conduct tastings only during the operating hours in which the licensee on whose premises the tastings occur is permitted to sell alcohol beverages, and in no case earlier than 11:00 a.m. or later than 9:00 p.m.

(6) The licensee shall prohibit patrons from leaving the licensed premises with an unconsumed sample.

(7) The licensee shall promptly remove all opened and unconsumed alcohol beverage samples from the licensed premises, destroy the samples immediately following the completion of the tasting, or store any open containers of unconsumed alcohol beverages in a secure area outside the sales area of the licensed premises for use at a tasting conducted at a later time or date.

(8) The licensee shall not serve a person who is under twenty-one (21) years of age or who is visibly intoxicated.

(9) The licensee shall not serve more than four (4) individual samples to a patron during a tasting.

(10) Alcohol samples shall be in open containers and shall be provided to a patron free of charge.