Wine law; notification of oenological treatments and the production and bottling of country wine and varietal/vintage wine

Certain oenological practices as well as the production and bottling of country wine and varietal/vintage wine must be declared.

According to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/33, control procedures are also prescribed for wines with a protected geographical indication (in Germany "Landweine") and grape variety/vintage wines ("Deutscher Wein").

The admissibility of marketing these wines also depends on whether the relevant EU control requirements are met. This includes the inclusion of all producers and bottlers in a control system.

The Bavarian regulations required for implementation will be issued shortly. In order to prevent possible problems with marketing, we recommend that all Bavarian producers and bottlers of country wine and grape variety/vintage wine apply to us for an establishment number if they do not already have one and notify their responsible district office or city of their production and bottling.

A correspondingly extended notification form for oenological treatments is available here for the required notification(s) (see under Forms).

Notifications under wine law must be submitted to the competent district administrative authorities.

The advance notification must be made before the wines are produced or bottled.