Estate Bottled

Appears in
Oxford Companion to Wine

By Jancis Robinson

Published 2006

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estate bottled, term used on labels which has a very specific meaning in the United States, where an estate-bottled wine must come from the winery’s own vineyards or those on which the winery has a long lease; both vineyards and winery must be in the geographical area specified on the label. This is the American counterpart of château bottled or domaine bottled.