GUIDE FOR BOTTLE ENTRIES
In Transit:
All wine bottles are to have corks tied down or have shrink caps fitted.
Beer, Ale, Lager & Stout Entries:
Clean brown ABC type 750ml bottles with plain crown caps.
Fill level: 30mm from top of bottle, plus or minus 10mm.
Still Wine Entries:
Clean, clear, colourless glass bottles of approx. 750ml capacity, with rounded, not sloping shoulders. Straight necked without screw type tops. Flanged corks, plastic stoppers not allowed.
Fill level: 20mm from bottom of cork, plus or minus 10mm.
Sparkling Wine Entries:
Clean conventional 750ml sparkling wine bottles with fully punted bottoms, a minimum empty weight of 800 grams and without screw type tops. Stoppers should be ribbed plastic Champagne type and secured with a wired cage (muselet).
Fill level: 70mm from top of bottle, plus or minus 10mm.
Liqueur Entries:
Clean, clear, colourless glass bottles of approx. 375ml capacity, with rounded, not sloping shoulders and straight necked without screw type tops. Flanged corks.
Fill level: 20mm from bottom of stopper, plus or minus 10mm.
Labels:
Small tag approxamitly Business-Card size, with Entrants Name, Club Name, Class Number and Class Description, Ingredient (optional), Year (optional), with allocated club coloured stickers, firmly affixed to bottles with new rubber bands.
Note:
The addition of sugar or artificial sweetener to a wine shall not be used to enter it into a different or subsequent class.