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In Portugal, the labels’ content is regulated and supervised by wine committees. The information contained in the label varies according to the type of wine. However, some elements are common to all labels, since the labelling rules derive from European Union legislation.

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Denomination of Controlled Origin

Regional

Sparkling

Port


	Port Classification of the wine.


	Brand Commercial name for the wine.


	Traditional reference The traditional reference may be classified as: Vintage, LBV, Harvest date, Ruby, Tawny, White, among others.


	Harvest year The harvest year comes only in the Vintage, LBV and Colheita categories.


	Bottler Who bottled the wine and where.


	Bottling Year Present only in the following categories of Port: LBV, Harvest Date and Age Designation.


	Bottle capacity Amount of wine in the bottle.


	Alcohol content Litres of alcohol per 100 litres of wine.


	Batch number Code used to identify the production number of a certain product packed under the same conditions.


	Portugal The origin of the product. It has to be Portuguese.


	Ingredientes Presence of certain ingredients in wine, namely sulphites.