Stop guessing if your label will pass TTB review
COLA Clear pre-screens your wine and spirits labels against 32 federal and state compliance checks — in seconds, not days.
COLA Clear pre-screens your wine and spirits labels against 32 federal and state compliance checks — in seconds, not days.
Upload your label artwork — JPG, PNG, PDF, or TIFF. Front and back labels uploaded separately.
Our compliance engine reads every word on your label and checks it against 32 federal and state regulations.
Get a color-coded report — green (pass), yellow (review), red (fix) — with specific rule citations. Download as PDF.
There's nothing else like it. Today, you have four options for label compliance — and none of them do what COLA Clear does.
Read through 27 CFR Parts 4, 5, and 7, cross-reference state rules, and hope you didn't miss anything. A missing comma in the Surgeon General's warning is enough to send your label back.2 If TTB returns it with "Needs Correction," you have 30 days to fix it — or you're rejected and back at the end of the queue.1
Someone fills out your COLA form and submits it to TTB. That's administrative work — not a systematic review of your label against the regulations. If something on the label itself is non-compliant, a filing service may not catch it.
Thorough, but turnaround depends on their client queue. Even streamlined law firm services charge $65+ per label for a quick review and submission — and full regulatory analysis runs several hundred dollars.
Existing platforms handle licensing, permits, distribution, and tax reporting. None of them review what's actually on your label before you submit it to TTB.
COLA Clear fills the gap. Automated regulatory analysis — 32 federal and state compliance checks run against your label in seconds. It catches the errors that cause TTB corrections before you submit. No one else does this. This category didn't exist before COLA Clear.
22 checks that run automatically — health warning text, alcohol format, net contents, importer statements, geographic designations, and more. Includes California conjunctive labeling and Oregon varietal rules.
10 checks that identify potential issues — type size, contrast, appellation validity, varietal names, permit verification, and subjective claims like "Reserve" or "Natural."
9 items we can't verify from the label but TTB requires — grape sourcing percentages, actual barrel age, mashbill composition, estate ownership.
Check your label before you submit — faster than a filing service, more systematic than a quick review, and cheaper than a correction cycle.
You're not a compliance specialist — you're a winemaker, a distiller, an importer. You handle COLA submissions alongside everything else. The typical producer files just 4 labels per year with the TTB3 — not enough to justify a compliance hire, but enough to lose weeks when one comes back for corrections.
83.0% of domestic wine producers filed 10 or fewer COLAs in 2025.3 For most, label compliance is an occasional task done without dedicated staff.
82.9% of domestic distillers filed 10 or fewer COLAs in 2025.3 Spirits labeling rules — class/type classifications, statements of composition, formula consistency — are among the most complex in the industry.4
Importers manage labels from multiple countries that must comply with U.S. federal and state rules. Volume varies widely — but even among importers, the majority file 10 or fewer labels per year.3