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Drinks module

Wine, beer and spirits: what the bottle must say, market by market.

A bottle of wine is a drink, a food and an alcoholic drink at once, and each brings its own rules. Oblifee Drinks shows the rules that bind an alcoholic drink specifically, in every market you sell into: ingredients e-labels, sulphite statements, bottler and importer particulars, statutory health warnings with the date each comes into force, and whether a deposit return scheme reaches your bottle. Every rule is cited to its instrument and carries its status.

Who it is for

Producers, bottlers and importers who put alcoholic drinks on more than one market and need to know, before the label is printed, what each market asks of the pack.

Wineries and wine importers

The EU ingredients and nutrition e-label, "contains sulphites", the bottler or importer line, vintage and variety rules, and the market health warnings a wine in glass must carry.

Breweries and cider makers

Whether a can or a bottle is inside a deposit return scheme, the deposit mark it needs, and the alcohol warnings due in the markets you ship to.

Distillers and spirits brands

Statutory warnings and their prescribed wording, size and placement, standard container sizes, and the importer particulars a third-country spirit needs.

Consultants and label agencies

One cited view per client range, with a sealed labelling check and an exportable dossier when the artwork is ready. Runs inside the Consultant workbench.

What the brain holds for alcohol

The Oblifee brain is a continuously monitored, cited regulatory record. Its alcohol rules are scoped to alcoholic drinks and sit beside the general food and drink rules, so a wine is judged against both. At the 2 September 2026 load it holds alcohol-specific rules for 46 markets; the count on the page in the app is always the live one.

Ingredients and nutrition e-label

Wine ingredients and nutrition by electronic means: a QR code that carries no marketing and collects no data, with allergens and energy staying on the physical label. Oblifee hosts the e-label as a published product passport, resolving at id.oblifee.com, and the Drinks page shows which of your products has one.

Where: EU wine rules (Regulation (EU) 2021/2117 and 2019/33), and Northern Ireland under the Windsor Framework.

Health warnings with their dates

The US GOVERNMENT WARNING, Mexico's leyenda precautoria, Brazil's excess-consumption wording, pregnancy pictograms and national warnings, each with its prescribed words and minimum size. Where a warning is announced but not yet in force the brain records the commencement date and the page counts down to it.

Dated changes tracked: Ireland's alcohol health warnings, commencing 3 September 2028 (confirmed; Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018 (Commencement) (Amendment) Order 2025, S.I. 422/2025), with Latvia and Korea among the others. The app shows each date with its status and the instrument it is cited to.

Deposit return and the glass bottle

Deposit return schemes were built around cans and plastic bottles. Whether a single-use glass wine or spirits bottle is in a scheme differs by market, so the brain records each scheme rule with the container scope it names. A market where the bottle is outside the scheme shows exactly that, with the citation, rather than demanding a deposit mark the scheme would reject.

Scope shown per row: alcoholic drinks, or beverages generally.

Bottler, importer, origin and quantity

The name and address of the bottler or importer, country of origin, protected designation and the 85 per cent rules for vintage and variety, nominal volume with permitted sizes and minimum numeral heights, and the language the particulars must be in.

Where: EU, Great Britain, US TTB, Canada, Mexico and Brazil, among others.

Every figure says how sure it is

Oblifee never rounds a rule up to certainty. Each fact carries the brain's own status and its lifecycle (active, upcoming or proposed), and the app shows both on every row. Where the brain holds nothing for a market, the page says so instead of showing a clearance.

Confirmed: taken from the instrument or the regulator, with its source Illustrative: the scheme's own draft figures Estimate: our assessment, clearly marked, where no official figure exists
What stays out of scope. Oblifee models what must be on the pack and what a producer must do under producer-responsibility law. Excise duty, tax strips, licensing and the accounting of deposit values are tax administration and are deliberately outside the platform.

Onboard a range in one sheet

The drinks import sheet creates each product as an alcoholic drink, with its classification and its bottle, so the alcohol rules apply from the first minute.

Download the drinks sheet

One row per SKU: sku, product_name, abv, net_volume_ml, vintage, colour, closure, bottle_weight_g, case_size, and optional closure and case weights.

Upload it

Each row becomes a product classified as an alcoholic drink, prepacked, with a glass bottle of the weight you gave. No weight is ever invented: a closure or case without a weight is recorded but not weighed until you add it.

Read the Drinks page

Per market: the alcohol elements, dated changes ahead, deposit return scope and each product's e-label state. Then run a labelling check on the artwork, today or at a launch date up to five years out.

Pricing

Module
£39 / month, or £390 a year
  • Alcohol-specific on-pack rules per market, cited with status
  • Health-warning countdowns and deposit return scope for the bottle
  • E-label status per product and the drinks import sheet
  • Added to any Oblifee plan; the labelling checker and passports are separate modules
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