When bodegas unwrap their new cork printing machines they usually pump a couple of corks through to see how the standard template looks. Most, but not all, then read the manual and customise the template. This is from a bottle of Castilian plonk donated at a do last week. The English is on the other side. Only the meidin espéin is lacking.
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You moron. It just means they bottled it on site.
At least I’m wholeheartedly wrong.