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# [QR code and wine e-label (EU 2021/2117)](https://help.vineyardelf.com/qr-code-generator-for-wine-labels-eu-2021-2117.md)

Since 8 December 2023, wine sold in the European Union must state its ingredients and nutrition information. Instead of printing all of that on the label, you put a QR code on the bottle and the consumer reads the detail on an e-label page. WineryElf builds that page and the QR code for you.

Where: the WineryElf app, the **Labels** section. (An earlier version of this article pointed to the batch record - the e-label now has a section of its own.)

## Filling in the wine details

1. In the Labels section pick the wine from the list.
2. Complete the description: name, producer, country, vintage, type, alcohol content and volume.
3. Enter the ingredients and the allergens (sulphites, for example) - allergens are automatically shown in bold within the ingredient list.
4. Give the nutrition values per 100 ml: energy (in both kJ and kcal), fat, carbohydrate, sugars, protein and salt.
5. Tick **Published** and save.

Without the energy values (kJ and kcal) the app will not generate the QR code. That is a legal requirement, and it is deliberately not possible to work around it with invented numbers.

## The QR code for the bottle

Once saved, choose **Print QR label**. The code leads to the public e-label page for that wine - you stick it on the bottle or the back label.

Next to the code you can print a caption ("Ingredients", "Składniki", "Ingrédients"). We suggest the one matching your app language, but the choice stays yours: if you are bottling for another market, switch the caption language in the selector next to the checkbox. The same applies to the name of the downloaded file.

## What the consumer sees

The e-label page shows the name and producer, country and vintage, alcohol content, the ingredients with allergens highlighted and a "Contains:" note, the nutrition table, storage information and the statutory warnings (18+, pregnancy).

The page headings, the browser tab title and the link preview in a messaging app all follow the same language as the rest of the page - English for a phone set to English, Polish for Polish. The language can also be forced by adding `?lang=en` or `?lang=pl` to the address.

Only the data you enter as public is visible. Nothing from the winery side - batch records, measurements, analyses - appears on that page.

## What Regulation 2021/2117 requires

The e-label page is built to satisfy it: it carries product information only (no advertising, no tracking), it is reachable without logging in, it gives the full set of mandatory data and it opens in the consumer's language.

## Good practice

- **Scan the code before printing a run** - with a phone, exactly as the consumer will.
- **Nutrition values**: on a dry wine most entries are zero, and the energy comes mainly from the alcohol.
- **Allergens**: almost every wine contains sulphites.
- **Changing the data** does not change the page address - a correction to the description shows up immediately and the QR code does not need reprinting.

QR codes stuck on tanks and barrels are a separate matter, covered by the article on printing QR labels for vessels.