Does Your Wine Have an Outdated Identity?

Did you know that all wines have a standard of identity? All US wines that is, and this is in relation to how the TTB (www.ttb.gov/wine) defines them. A required item for any wine label is what the TTB refers to as a "class & type". In most of our cases the class we are speaking of is the "grape wine" class. (Some of the others include citrus, fruit and sparkling just FYI) Then moving into the "class" part of it the list of options there used to include 17 designations of European origin. An agreement was signed between the US and the EU in 2006 which essentially removed those 17 designations for use on US wine labels unless you'd grandfathered their use in via earlier labels. Read more