Paul and Stef of Stefania Wine have a great post up on their blog about wine labels and naming rules that they have to follow from the TTB:
The TTB has an entire set of rules on what you can say about where a wine was produced. These laws were mostly drawn up in the 1970′s. The top ‘ranking’ is Estate. That’s the most strict labeling in theory. To call something Estate, it must be grown, produced, cellared and bottled on property owned by the winery. The thought in the 70′s was this would be a way for consumers to identify the very best wines.Go check out the rest of the post, it’s a revealing rant…
It never worked that way of course. …
