Maine Bottle Bill Compliance Update
Starting July 1, 2025, Maine is implementing a new labeling requirement under its Bottle Bill program that affects all DTC wine shipments. For more information, we recommend discussing this with your compliance team and reviewing the following resources:
Maine Bottle Bill to Extend to DtC Wine Shipments in July | Sovos Sovos ShipCompliant
DTC Licensees Must Comply with Maine Bottle Bill Law by July 1, 2025 | Wine Institute | Wine Institute (WI member login required)
Bottle Bill - Maine | Wine Institute | Wine Institute (WI member login required)
How Wineshipping Can Support
Still shipping to Maine after July 1st?
We will continue to process and ship DTC orders to Maine as usual.
Want us to apply bottle bill stickers for you?
If your winery has received approval for compliant Maine bottle stickers, we’d be happy to help you stock and apply the stickers to bottles at the time of order fulfillment, please contact our service team to discuss this option
Prefer to stop shipping to Maine?
Remove your Maine permit from the ACP Permits page, ACP action center will protect you from making any unintended shipments to Maine.
Meanwhile, we are in touch with the Maine Department of Environmental Protection to explore additional, scalable solutions. We’ll share updates as they become available.