California Codes, Business and Professions Code - BPC, Division 9 — Alcoholic Beverages, Chapter 4 — Imports, Section 23661.7

(a) A person who has purchased wine from a licensed winegrower, the holder of a beer and wine wholesaler’s license and an off-sale retail license that only sells wine, or the holder of a limited off-sale retail wine license, has taken delivery of that wine within this state for delivery or use without the state, and has removed that wine from the state, may return all or any portion of that wine to the premises of the licensee from whom the wine was purchased. To make a return the purchaser need not obtain any license in this state, and may return the wine in a vehicle owned or controlled by the purchaser.

(b) The provisions of Section 32175 of the Revenue and Taxation Code shall apply to any wine so returned.