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Winery on wrong side of EU over fruit liqueur bottle sizes.

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Emma Eversham The EU has ordered a producer of English wines, meads and fruit liqueurs to change the size of the glass bottles it uses . Jerry Schooler, owner of Lurgashall Winery in West Sussex, said it could cost up to AGBP30,000 to ensure he has the right size bottles for his fruit liqueurs after Trading Standards told him he should be using 35cl bottles instead of the 37.5cl bottles he currently favours. But he is hoping to find a way to avoid the bill.

He said: "It's crazy. We are fruit liqueur producers. We make honey meads and country wines - we don'tt produce wine, so it's hard to see how this is a problem.

"It's not only the bottles we have to change, but the labels, the boxes, the size of the corks and we even have to change the bottling machines." ...

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