food and beverage service

1. READING THE WINE LABEL
Regardless of where a wine comes from, there will be certain standard
information on every label. Each item may be in a different place from label
to
label, but it will definitely appear somewhere on the label. Other
information is optional, not mandatory, but it appears frequently enough to
merit inclusion in the following list of what you will generally find on a
wine label:
1. Name of the wine - Mandatory
2. The name of the producer - Mandatory
3. The name and location of the person or company legally responsible for
making the wine, in some cases this name can be the same as #2) -
Mandatory
4. The volume of the bottle’s contents (this can appear either on the label
itself or molded into the glass bottle, usually near its base) - Mandatory.
5. The alcohol content of the wine (this is usually expressed as a percentage
of the wine’s volume) - Mandatory.
6. The name of the shipper and importer responsible for bringing the wine to
the country (eg. India), occasionally the shipper and importer are two
different companies - Mandatory.
7. The country of origin (always in English) - Mandatory
8. The kind of wine (always in English) - Optional
9. The quality of the wine - Optional
10. The year the wine was made, also known as the vintage - Optional.