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Art 1st. -
Only to the appellation contrôlée “Banyuls Great Vintage” the sweet aperitif wines are entitled which, answering the conditions hereafter enumerated, were collected on the delimited territory of the appellation contrôlée “Banyuls”.
Art 2. -
The wines being entitled to the appellation contrôlée “Banyuls Great Vintage” will have obligatorily to come from following type of vines, other than all others: Principal type of vines. Black, gray and white Grenache, maccabéo, tourbat say Malvoisie of Roussillon, muscatel with small grains, muscatel of Alexandria says Roman Muscat. The black percentage of grenache will have to be at least equal to 75% of encépagement total of the exploitation. Additional type of vines. Black Carignan, cinsaut and syrah. The proportion of additional type of vines will not have encépagement to exceed 10% of total of the same piece.
Art 3. -
The vines producing the wine with appellation contrôlée “Banyuls Great Vintage” will have to be cut in accordance with the provisions hereafter: The only authorized size is the short size. The vine led out of goblet or range can carry a maximum of seven coursons cut in two frank eyes and the one-eyed one. The grenache being prone to the run-out could be cut long at the beginning of the year, but in the course of this one it will have to be recut according to the mode mentioned above. The presence of fruit trees in a piece makes lose with its harvest the right to the appellation contrôlée. The irrigation is prohibited in some form that it is and at any time of the year except granted exceptional exemption, for vineyards or parts of vineyards, for the nonvegetative period of the vine by the national institute of the labels of origin and, out this period, by decree of the Minister for the agriculture and the Minister for the economy and finances after opinion of this institute.
Art 4. -
The wines being entitled to the appellation contrôlée “Banyuls Great Vintage” will have to be obtained by maceration during at least five days of the grape picked off starting from grapes or musts obligatorily having an initial natural wealth of sugar of 252 grams at least per liter, and in which was made in the course of fermentation a contribution evaluated out of alcohol with 5% at least and of 10% to the maximum of the volume of must implemented using alcohol titrating at least 95° giving to the made wines a total richness of 21,5° (actual alcoholic strength and in power) with a minimum of actual alcoholic strength 15°. The denomination “Rancio” can be associated with the appellation contrôlée for the sweet aperitif wines of this name which, vinified under the conditions above, have because of their age and the conditions particular to this soil, taken the taste known as of “Rancio”. The denominations “dry”, “dryness” or “rough” could be associated with name “Banyuls Great Vintage” for the wines whose sugar content natural remaining after the development does not exceed 54 grams per liter. The mention of a type of vine cannot be reproduced on some part that it either that if the product were obtained on the basis of this only type of vine. However, the mention “Muscatel” is prohibited. The operations of mutage must be carried out before December 31 of the year of harvest of musts. However, of the complements of mutage could be authorized or ordered by the Fraud Squad, within the limit of a total addition of 10% out of pure alcohol, before the delivery of the certificate envisaged in article 6 of this decree. Any operation of enrichment other than the mutage and the possible complements of mutage under the conditions noted above, and especially any operation of chaptalization, concentration or congelation even within the legal limits, like all operations of pasteurization, treatment by pure gas oxygen and the addition of salt, even within the limits fixed by the law of July 11, 1891, are prohibited under penalty of making lose the right to the appellation contrôlée for the wine on which they would have been practised. The grape harvest of the young vines could be used for the development of the wine with appellation contrôlée referred to above only starting from the fourth sheet of the graft (this one included/understood) after grafting on the spot or installation of marble-grafted.
Art 5. -
The label of origin referred to above is applicable only within the limit of 30 hectolitres must per hectare of vine in production. This limit can be modified each year following the quantity and the quality of harvest, by decision of the management committee of the national institute of the labels of origin of the wines and brandies, approved by decree of the Minister for agriculture after consultation of a commission of five members named by the national institute of the labels of origin, on the proposal of the trade union of defense most representative of the appellation contrôlée in question, adopted by a general assembly of the aforesaid trade union. The increases in basic output are granted only in exceptional year where quality and quantity arise simultaneously. The surplus quantities are displaced. However, of the individual exemptions can be granted by the I.N.A.O after checking of the quality of the harvest and the conditions of production. The requests will have to be presented before the beginning of the grape harvest. When the output of the pieces from which the grapes come exceeds 40 hectolitres of must to the hectare, the producer loses the right to the sweet aperitif wine development for some proportion that it is harvest of these pieces.
Art 6. them wines for which will be asserted the appellation contrôlée “Banyuls Great Vintage” will have initially to obtain the certificate of approval “Banyuls”, in accordance with the provisions of the decree regulating this name. They will be able to circulate under the appellation contrôlée “Banyuls Great Vintage” only after having obtained a second certificate of approval delivered by the national institute of the labels of origin taking into consideration condition fixed by the regulation in force. The delivery of this certificate is subordinated to an analytical and organoleptic control wines on opinion of an indicated inspection board, on a proposal from the trade union of defense most representative of name in question, by the national institute of the labels of origin. Rules of procedure worked out by the trade union and approval by the national institute of the labels of origin will determine in accordance with the regulation in force, the procedure to be followed for the operation of the inspection board and the delivery of the certificate of approval. [These provisions were supplemented by you decree n° 74.871 of October 19.] The wines of the appellation contrôlée “Banyuls Great Vintage” must be preserved out of containers out of wooden in the wine storehouses or cellars of the producers for one minimum length of time thirty months as from the declaration of harvest.
Art 7. -
The wines for which, under the present decree, will be asserted the appellation contrôlée “Banyuls Great Vintage” could not be declared after harvest, be offered to the public, be dispatched, put on sale or be sold without in the declaration of harvest, the advertisements, on the leaflets, invoices, labels, containers unspecified, the label of origin referred to above being registered and is accompanied by the mention “appellation contrôlée”, the whole in very apparent characters. The name of name will have to be registered on the labels in very apparent characters whose dimensions, as well in height as in width, will not have to be lower than those of the characters of any other mention being reproduced on the label.
Art 8. -
The use of any indication or any sign likely to make believe in the purchaser that a wine is entitled to the appellation contrôlée “Banyuls Great Vintage” whereas it does not answer all the conditions fixed by this decree will be continued in accordance with the general legislation on the frauds and the protection of the labels of origin (art 1 and 2 of the law of August 1, 1905; art 8 of the law of May 6, 1919; modified art 13 of the decree of August 19, 1921) without damage of the sanctions of a tax nature, if it is necessary.
Art 9. -
The modified decree of November 16, 1962 is repealed. Warning: Information pré senté be on this site are the subject of a clause of nonresponsabilité INAO_19720519_10202/11/2006 Downloadable document: AOC_Banyuls_Grand_Cru.doc