From the toy cupboard...

Heres our Labelling machine, an Enos Euro Mach 1. Often at bottling time you will be unsure of the quantities of wine each market will require. Each country has its own labelling requirements with regard to what needs to be declared or stated and so you usually have to do a separate run of labels for each different market. The last thing you want to be doing unlabelling bottles by hand, believe me.

Therefore after bottling our wine is stored flat on Cella-Stac sheets, unlabelled, until we need to send it out. Then we pass it through the machine above which first puts a tin sleeve over the neck then rolls it tightly onto the bottle. The bottle then passes through the labelling section and is ready for packing.

Its works well with 2 or 3 people operating it but is equally easily done by a single person if there isnt any major time pressure. The capacity is around 1200 bottle per hour and the machinery runs on compressed air.