Varietals: a “Non-required” label item

Now that we’ve taken a closer look at the items that are actually required to be on all wine labels, lets go into the next level and review another group: Commonly seen label items. Each of these items we’ll be taking a closer look at are not required to...

Net Contents

The TTB requires all alcoholic beverages to have a net contents statement. They also require this statement to be in metric amounts, and very specific metric amounts by the container’s volume. For example the most common bottle size we used to seeing holds 750...

Sulfite Statement

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 Sulfite Statement The next item in our list of label items is a required one, the sulfite statement. This became a required item on all wine labels on January 9, 1987 for wines containing more than 10 parts per million of sulfur dioxide. This...

Name and address

Our next item is referred to as the Name and address, or bottling statement. This required item can appear on either the front or back label and refers to the details about who either bottled or imported the wine. The TTB’s most specific and bare minimum...

Health Warning Statement

Like so many things, and as the saying often goes, “things used to be a lot simpler.” This applies to even wine labels. So in the interest of protecting the consumer Congress ruled in the requirement of a specific health warning statement to be used on all...

Alcohol statement

The next item on our list of required label items is the alcohol statement. Ever since the early days of the history of the US the government has seen fit to place a tax on alcohol, at least the start out of it was just until the debt from the revolutionary war was...