Earlier this year, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax & Trade Bureau (TTB) expanded the authorized standards of fill for wine and distilled spirits containers to provide more flexibility to industry members and give consumers more purchasing options. TTB added 13 additional standards of fill for wine containers and 15 additional standards of fill for distilled spirits containers.
Changing the net contents statement on a product label is an allowable revision to approved labels (allowable revision #10). This means that instead of applying for a new COLA to cover your product packaged in one of the new allowable container sizes, you may choose to use an existing Certificate of Label Approval (COLA).
Be aware of type size requirements!
Simply decreasing the label size to fit the new container size may result in the font size becoming too small to meet the minimum type size requirements. In addition, the Health Warning Statement may not exceed the maximum number of characters per inch. These requirements vary, based on the net contents of the container. You are responsible for ensuring that your product label meets these requirements. See each mandatory information labeling page for wine, distilled spirits, and beer for the minimum type size allowed for each label element.
Click here to see details on allowable changes to approved labels.