TTB Business Central - Starting a TTB-Regulated Business
What type of wine operation do you want to start?
- Bonded Wine Premesis
- If the business you are interested in involves the production, blending, cellar treatment, storage, bottling, and/or packaging of wine, you’ll need to apply to be a Bonded Wine Premises. There are two types of Bonded Wine Premises:
- Bonded Winery (BWN): a Bonded Winery is a facility that is authorized to produce wine.
- Bonded Wine Cellar (BWC): a Bonded Wine Cellar does not engage in the production of wine, but in the blending, cellar treatment, storage, bottling, and/or packaging of wine. Some BWCs also blend wine.
- If the business you are interested in involves the production, blending, cellar treatment, storage, bottling, and/or packaging of wine, you’ll need to apply to be a Bonded Wine Premises. There are two types of Bonded Wine Premises:
- Taxpaid Wine Bottling House
- A Taxpaid Wine Bottling House bottles or packages wine on which excise tax has already been paid.
- Vinegar Plant
- A Vinegar Plant is authorized to receive untaxpaid wine for the production of vinegar.
- Volitile Fruit-Flavor Concentrate Plant
- A Volatile Fruit-Flavor Concentrate Plant is authorized to produce concentrate by any process which includes evaporations from any fruit mash or juice.