If you distill spirit you need a locked compound area to which the keys are held by customs and revenue. You cannot "licence" yourself for home consumption. If you could then why are there no distillation kits at homebrew shops? Who puts these ideas out?
I would strongly suspect that if you make homemade wine and sell it at a fete you are liable to be locked up. Most will simply turn a blind eye most of the time to this.
If you look at the details you will also see that spirits are double, or triple, distilled. The reason is simple, a single distillation leaves too many poisions in the initial distillate.
By the way alcohol is an incorrect term. There are many alcohols methanol, ethanol, propanol, butanol, pentanol, hexanol and just keep going. Then there are the different variants iso-propyl alcohol - para-propyl alcohol. The ones above propyl alcohol get complex. The whole lot are termed alcohols.