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Glossary of common wine terms

Term / acronymDefinition
ABNA unique 11-digit number that identifies your business to the government and community issued through the Australian government’s Business Registration Service.
ACCCAustralian Competition and Consumer Commission.
ActWine Australia Act 2013 (Cth).
AGWAustralian Grape & Wine
ARTAdministrative Review Tribunal
Australia-EU Wine Agreement

Agreement between Australia and the European Community on Trade in Wine.

Australian Consumer Law

Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth).

Australia-UK Wine AgreementAgreement on Trade in Wine between the Government of Australia and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
AWRIAustralian Wine Research Institute

CDS 

Container Deposit Scheme

CIF

Cost, Insurance and Freight (Port of Discharge) (Intercoms 2020)

  • The seller delivers the goods on board the vessel or procures the goods already so delivered. The risk of loss of or damage to the goods passes when the products are on the ship.
  • The seller must contract for and pay the costs and freight necessary to bring the goods to the named port of destination.
  • The seller also contracts for insurance cover against the buyer’s risk of loss of or damage to the goods during the carriage.
  • The buyer should note that under CIF the seller is required to obtain insurance only on minimum cover. Should the buyer wish to have more insurance protection, it will need either to agree as much expressly with the seller or to make its own extra insurance arrangements.
Department

Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, or any of the subsequent names of this department.

Description and presentation

Is a reference to all names (including business names) or other descriptions, references (including addresses), indications, signs, designs and trade marks used to distinguish the wine and appearing:

  • on the container (including on the device used to seal the container or on a label affixed to the container), on any tag attached to the container or, if the container is a bottle, on the sheathing covering the neck of the bottle,
  • on protective wrappings (such as papers and straw envelopes of all kinds), cartons and cases used in the packaging of the wine or the transport of the wine,
  • in documents relating to the transport of the wine or in other commercial documents (e.g. invoices or delivery notes) relating to the sale or transport of the wine,
  • in advertisements relating to the wine.
EDNExport Declaration Number
EUEuropean Union
ELISSExport Label Image Search System
Export licenceA licence to export grape products from Australia issued in accordance with section 9(1) of the Regulations.
FAQFrequently Asked Questions
FOBFree on Board (Port of Shipment) (Intercoms 2020) 
  • The seller delivers the goods on board the vessel nominated by the buyer at the named port of shipment or procures the goods already so delivered.
  • The risk of loss of or damage to the goods passes when the products are on board the vessel. The buyer bears all costs from that moment onwards.

Food Standards Code Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code.

Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code
FSANZFood Standards Australia New Zealand
GIIn relation to wine goods, means a Geographical Indication that identifies the goods as originating in a country, or in a region or locality in that country, where a given quality, reputation or other characteristic of the goods is essentially attributable to their geographical origin.
GMPGood Manufacturing Practice
Grape product
  • wine manufactured in Australia from prescribed goods
  • brandy distilled in Australia from any such wine
  • grape spirit manufactured in Australia from prescribed goods and suitable for the fortifying of wine or the manufacture of brandy, or
  • a product (being prescribed goods or a product derived in whole or in part from prescribed goods) declared by the Regulations to be a grape product for the purposes of the Act.
Label claim

A written claim that is made or implied about the wine goods’ vintage, variety or prescribed GI on a label; in a Label Integrity Program record; or in any other commercial document; or in an advertisement.

LIPLabel Integrity Program
MRLMaximum Residual Limit
NATANational Association of Testing Authorities
NIPNutritional Information Panel
OGCOrganic Goods Certificate
Organic goodsGoods that are described as, or described as including ingredients that are, organic, biodynamic, biological, ecological or any other similar description, and includes goods that are described as in-conversion to organic or biodynamic.
Organic Goods RulesExport Control (Organic Goods) Rules 2021 (Cth).
Prescribed GIA GI included in the Register of Protected Geographical Indications and Other Terms in relation to Australia.
Prescribed goodsFresh grapes, dried grapes and grape juice, whether single-strength or concentrated.
RegisterRegister of Protected Geographical Indications and Other Terms
RegulationsWine Australia Regulations 2018 (Cth).
SWASustainable Winegrowing Australia
WALASWine Australia Licensing and Approval System
WineAn alcoholic beverage produced by the complete or partial fermentation of fresh grapes or products derived solely from fresh grapes.
Wine goods
  • wine, or
  • grapes, or grape extract, used or intended to be used in manufacturing wine.
Wine productA food containing no less than 70 per cent wine which has been formulated, processed, modified or mixed with other foods such that it is not wine.
WWTGWorld Wine Trade Group

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