Submit brand information for verified spirit drinks

Once your product has been verified under the Spirit Drinks Verification Scheme, verified bottlers, re-bottlers and re-labellers should submit brand information to HMRC. Each facility linked to the bottling and labelling of the brand will need its own brand application.

If a brand is labelled by a separate labeller, rather than a bottler who also carries out the labelling, the labeller should submit the brand details.

Brand owners should check that this information is correct, particularly the spelling of brand names, as HMRC will publish the details provided to us.

HMRC will only publish details of the brand owner and the brand name, not the bottler. The details of the bottler are for internal use only.

Single Malt Welsh Whisky is required to be bottled and labelled in Wales.

You should get all of your information together before you start. You will fill this form in online and you cannot save your progress.

When requested to do so by the Spirit Drinks Verification Unit, verified bottlers will need to confirm the:

HMRC only require the ‘umbrella’ description of a brand, but will publish the description provided by brand owners through the bottler and labeller. However, a specific brand would be separately identified on HMRC’s look-up service where a brand ceases to be verified but other versions of the same brand are not affected.

If a brand is bottled or labelled by more than one bottler or labeller, every bottler or labeller of the brand should submit this information.

After you’ve submitted brand information

Once a brand has been verified, HMRC will publish details about the brand’s name and owner on the look-up service. This provides a public record of verified brands and lets consumers, importers and overseas authorities check a brand’s verification status.

HMRC will not publish details of the bottler or identify which bottler bottles which brand. This is because independent bottlers or labellers may supply many customers with own label products and: