The mark consists of a red crest in the shape of a shield with a mottled beige center with a red star in the upper left corner and a red turret in the lower right corner separated by a red diagonal line from the lower left corner to the upper right corner of the shield, with a red crown on top with five rectangular points on top and four brown circles each inside a red circle outlined in brown in the band of the crown, all on solid brown circle with the words "PRIMUS INTER PARES" in white above and "CALABRIA WINES" in white below the shield and crown separated by two white dashes, all on a red circle with twelve rounded points imitating a wax seal, all on a mottled beige square.