The easiest way to identify original imported wine is to look at the two labels, the barcode, and the raw material ingredients. Original imported wine must have a front label and a back label, and the back label must have a Chinese logo so that it can be shipped in through customs. To distinguish between imported wine and domestic wine, look at the bottom barcode on the back label of the bottle and the first number at the beginning.

The first few digits of wine product barcodes are different in each country. It mainly depends on the beginning of the barcode. For example, the number starting with 3 is made in France, the number starting with 690 is made in China, and the number starting with 489 is made in Hong Kong. Identifying the origin by barcode is not only applicable to wine, but also applies to all products. Common wine production country barcodes start as follows: 00-13 United States and Canada, 30-37 France. If you see the beginning of the barcode is 31, it belongs to the range of 30-37, it is produced in France, 380 Bulgaria, 400-440 Germany, 471 Taiwan, 480 Philippines, 482 Ukraine, 50 United Kingdom, 520 Greece, 54 Belgium, 560 Portugal, 57 Denmark, 600-601 South Africa, 64 Finland, 73 Sweden, 750 Mexico, 775 Peru, 779 Argentina, 780 Chile, 789 Brazil, 850 Cuba, 87 Netherlands, 888 Singapore, 90-91 Austria, 893 Vietnam (for example, if you see the black 35 cigarettes in the world, they start with this code and are produced in Vietnam!) 899 Indonesia, 93 Australia, 955 Malaysia, 958 Macau, 80-83 Italy, 84 Spain, 880 South Korea, 890 India, 70 Norway, 460-469 Russia, 94 New Zealand, and many others, I won’t type them out one by one, such as VAT69 Whiskey is Scotch whiskey and belongs to the UK. The authentic one should start with 50. Depending on the region of the UK, it may start with 501 or 502, but you can see 93 in the bar. This means that this wine is not original from the UK. Produced and bottled in Australia.