[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 27, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 27CFR4.26]

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            TITLE 27--ALCOHOL, TOBACCO PRODUCTS AND FIREARMS
 
 CHAPTER I--ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO TAX AND TRADE BUREAU, DEPARTMENT OF THE 
                                TREASURY
 
PART 4_LABELING AND ADVERTISING OF WINE--Table of Contents
 
                Subpart C_Standards of Identity for Wine
 
Sec.  4.26  Estate bottled.

    (a) Conditions for use. The term Estate bottled may be used by a 
bottling winery on a wine label only if the wine is labeled with a 
viticultural area appellation of origin and the bottling winery:
    (1) Is located in the labeled viticultural area; (2) grew all of the 
grapes used to make the wine on land owned or controlled by the winery 
within the boundaries of the labeled viticultural area; (3) crushed the 
grapes, fermented the resulting must, and finished, aged, and bottled 
the wine in a continuous process (the wine at no time having left the 
premises of the bottling winery).
    (b) Special rule for cooperatives. Grapes grown by members of a 
cooperative bottling winery are considered grown by the bottling winery.
    (c) Definition of ``Controlled''. For purposes of this section, 
Controlled by refers to property on which the bottling winery has the 
legal right to perform, and does perform, all of the acts common to 
viticulture under the terms of a lease or similar agreement of at least 
3 years duration.
    (d) Use of other terms. No term other than Estate bottled may be 
used on a label to indicate combined growing and bottling conditions.

[T.D. ATF-53, 43 FR 37676, Aug. 23, 1978, as amended by T.D. ATF-201, 50 
FR 12533, Mar. 29, 1985]