A point not touched upon in the earlier thread is how far in advance a
winery must order labels. Is it possible that sometimes orders must be
placed before the winery knows the parameters of a particular wine
with sufficient accuracy to allow putting the information on the
label? Perhaps this might explain some (certainly not all) omissions
of information we would like to see on a label. I am clueless here.

Vino
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Vino wrote:
> A point not touched upon in the earlier thread is how far in advance a
> winery must order labels. Is it possible that sometimes orders must be
> placed before the winery knows the parameters of a particular wine
> with sufficient accuracy to allow putting the information on the
> label? Perhaps this might explain some (certainly not all) omissions
> of information we would like to see on a label. I am clueless here.


We had a young lady in this group some years back, Jo Diaz if memory
serves, who worked for one of the holding companies that own a lot of
wineries in California. She had previously worked for a commercial
design and print company that specialized in wine labels. When she
found out that I collected them, she sent me a hundred or so of their
design. Any way she told me that they could go from idea to design to
printed labels in a week. Of course the winery has to get their labels
approved by the BATF.

Vino > wrote in message >. ..
> A point not touched upon in the earlier thread is how far in advance a
> winery must order labels. Is it possible that sometimes orders must be
> placed before the winery knows the parameters of a particular wine
> with sufficient accuracy to allow putting the information on the
> label? Perhaps this might explain some (certainly not all) omissions
> of information we would like to see on a label. I am clueless here.

I can't speak to the lead time for a winery, but I can tell you about
the hoops one must go through for the back import label: if you do
everything right, you can get your label federally approved in about 2
weeks. However, it's quite a trick to do everything right. A 70-ish
page guideline trick. So if you get any little thing wrong, then add
in the time to fix it and another 2 week wait. This is why most back
labels on wines imported tend to have just the basics...why risk
getting rejected because some word in the blurb (say, quoting a
vintner who calls his wine "spritzy and springy", when it is not a
sparkling wine, and the government here feels that would mislead the
consumer...just as an example of course) I don't think many business
types are willing to risk adding weeks and weeks to sell time just so
that they can add this information. Just a guess.
e.winemonger

"Vino" > skrev i melding
...
> A point not touched upon in the earlier thread is how far in advance a
> winery must order labels. Is it possible that sometimes orders must be
> placed before the winery knows the parameters of a particular wine
> with sufficient accuracy to allow putting the information on the
> label?
It is not uncommon to bottle wines and have them lying around a year or two
before sending off to buyers... Most will have plenty opportunity to put on
labels during that time.

Anders

"Vino" > wrote in message
...
> A point not touched upon in the earlier thread is how far in advance a
> winery must order labels. Is it possible that sometimes orders must be
> placed before the winery knows the parameters of a particular wine
> with sufficient accuracy to allow putting the information on the
> label? Perhaps this might explain some (certainly not all) omissions
> of information we would like to see on a label. I am clueless here.
>
> Vino
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Why do you care? I mean, this so trivial. Just drink, taste, and post some
notes. Wine is not rocket surgery. Get the joke?

Rich R.

On Fri, 07 May 2004 23:59:19 GMT, "Rich R" > wrote:

>
>"Vino" > wrote in message
.. .
>> A point not touched upon in the earlier thread is how far in advance a
>> winery must order labels. Is it possible that sometimes orders must be
>> placed before the winery knows the parameters of a particular wine
>> with sufficient accuracy to allow putting the information on the
>> label? Perhaps this might explain some (certainly not all) omissions
>> of information we would like to see on a label. I am clueless here.
>>
>> Vino
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>> letters and numbers of
>> e-mail address.
>
>Why do you care? I mean, this so trivial. Just drink, taste, and post some
>notes. Wine is not rocket surgery. Get the joke?
>
Maybe I'm slow but no, I don't get it.

Vino
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