Guide to Wine Law

Cleanskins

A cleanskin normally is defined as a bottle or other package that does not carry, in any form, a label bearing mandatory information.  However, this is not a legal definition and the term sometimes is used to describe packages carrying a basic hand-written label.

Unlabelled bottles cannot be sold at retail to the public, but unbroken cartons can be sold if the mandatory information appears on the carton in an acceptable form.

Cleanskins cannot be exported.