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AOC Beaujolais (vins blancs) machine translated reference / legal text

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Decree of March 19, 1998 relating to certain labels of origin controlled of the Burgundy area - J.O n° 72 of March 26, 1998 [The provisions relating to the red and rosy wines of the AOC Beaujolais wine and Higher Beaujolais are repealed by the decree of October 19, 1998.] [The provisions relating to the AOC Beaujolais-Villages wine and Beaujolais followed by the name of the commune of origin are repealed by the decree of October 19, 1998.]

Art 1st. -

(Modified D. March 11, 1938). - Only are entitled to the appellation contrôlée “Beaujolais wines” the white wines which, answering the conditions hereafter, were collected inside the following territories: Department of the Rhone: District of Villefranche in entirety. District of Lyon, canton of Arbresle: communes of Arbresle (in the part located at North of Turdine), Bully, Nuelles, Sarcey, Saint-Germain-on-the Arbresle. Department of Saone-et-Loire: The canton of Vault-of-Guinchay in entirety on the communes, parts of communes and pieces which will be delimited by the commission of experts named by the management committee of the national committee of the labels of origin, in consideration of the geological nature of their ground and the local, honest and constant uses, and after opinion of the commission aimed to article 5 hereafter. The plan established by their care will have, after approval of the national committee of the labels of origin, being deposited in the town halls of the common interested parties before January 1, 1938. (Modified, D. August 26, 1946). - Only the wines produced respectively on each following commune, in the pieces having been the subject of a special delimitation by the commission of experts inside the delimited surface of Beaujolais name will be able to associate the name of their commune of origin to that of Beaujolais wine, in the condition that this one is placed before the name of communal name, printed in identical characters and that the wines answer the particular regulations envisaged in articles 3 and 4. Department of the Rhone: (Supplemented, D. August 14, 1958 and Dec 24, 1969). Juliénas, Jullié, Emeringes, Chenas, Flowered, Chiroubles, Lancié, Villié-Morgon, Lantigné, Beaujeu, Régnié, Durette, Cercié, Quincié, Saint-Lager, Odenas, Charentay, Saint-Etienne-the-Game preserve, Be worth, Perréon, Saint-Étienne-of-Oullières, Blacé, Arbuissonnas, Salles, Saint-Julien, Montmelas, Rivolet, Saint-Didier-on-Beaujeu, Denicé, Ardillats, Marchampt, Vauxrenard. Department of Saone-et-Loire: Leynes, Saint-Love-Bellevue, Vault-of-Guinchay, Romanèche, Pruzilly, Chânes, Saint-Vérand, Saint-Symphorien-in Ancelles. (Addition, D. April 21, 1950). - The wines answering all the requirements to claim with name “Beaujolais wine”, followed name of the commune of origin, will also be entitled to the denomination “BeaujolaisVillages”.

Art 2. -

(Modified, D. March 3, 1952). - The wines being entitled to the appellation contrôlée “Beaujolais wine” will have to come from following type of vines, other than very other: for the white wines: Pinot Chardonnay and Aligoté;

Art 3. -

(Replaced, D. October 1, 1985). - To be entitled to the appellation contrôlée “Beaujolais wines” the wines must come from collected grapes with good maturity and present a minimum natural voluminal title alcoholometric of 10%. Cannot be regarded as being with good maturity any unit batch of vintage having a high content in sugar lower than: 153 grams per liter of must for the white wines. Moreover, when the authorization of enrichment by dry sugaring is granted, the wines should not exceed a total voluminal alcoholometric title of 13%, under penalty of losing the right to name considered. The wines for which the addition either of the name of the commune of origin was asserted, or from the expression “Villages”, with that of the appellation contrôlée “Beaujolais wine” must come from collected grapes with good maturity and present a minimum natural voluminal title alcoholometric of 10,5%. Cannot be regarded as being with good maturity any unit batch of vintage having a high content in sugar lower than: 161 grams per liter of must for the white wines. Moreover, when the authorization of enrichment by dry sugaring is granted, the wines should not exceed a total voluminal alcoholometric title of 13,5% under penalty of losing the right to the controlled label of origin. To be entitled to the appellation contrôlée “higher Beaujolais wine”, the wines must come from collected grapes with good maturity and present a minimum natural voluminal title alcoholometric of 10,5%. Cannot be regarded as being with good maturity any unit batch of vintage having a high content in sugar lower than: 161 grams per liter of must for the white wines. Moreover, when the authorization of enrichment by dry sugaring is granted, the wines should not exceed a total voluminal alcoholometric title of 13%, under penalty of losing the right to name considered. However, the benefit of one or the other of names referred to above can be granted to the wines of a total voluminal title alcoholometric higher than the limits referred to above and worked out without any enrichment, if the informant justifies of a certificate issued by the national Institute of the labels of origin of the wines and brandies after investigation carried out into his request presented before the vintage of the vines concerned. The notifications of the exemptions aimed to the preceding subparagraph must be addressed to the local services of the general direction of the taxes and the direction of the consumption and the repression of the frauds. The limits aimed to the subparagraphs above can be modified when the climatic conditions justify it by joint decree of the Minister for agriculture and the minister in charge with the budget and consumption, on proposal of the national Institute of the labels of origin of the wines and brandies, after opinion of the interested producers' associations.

Art 4. -

(Modified, D. August 26, 1982). [The basic output aimed to the article 1st of the decree n° 74.872 of modified October 19, 1974 relating to the producing output of the vineyards of the wines with controlled label of origin is fixed, for the wines of names “Beaujolais wine”, “Beaujolais wine higher” than 55 hectolitres per hectare and for the wines of names “Beaujolais wine villages”, “Beaujolais wine” followed by the name of the commune of origin, with 55 hectolitres for the white wines per hectare.] [See also the decrees n° 74.872 of modified October 19 74.958 of November 20 and 75.842 of September 8: - ceiling limits classification: 20%] (Supplemented, D. 87.854 of October 22, 1987). The benefit of the controlled label of origin, can be granted to the wines coming from the young vines only as from the third year following that during which the plantation was carried out places from there before August 31.

Art 5. -

In a one year deadline, proposals tending to specify a regulation of the density of the plantations and size will have to be made at the national Committee of the labels of origin by the Commission of the vine growing of the Beaujolais wine for the controlled labels of origin. Nevertheless are prohibited, from the publication of this decree, the practices of the incision annular or any other similar and that of the torsion of vine shoot (A. March 15, 1944).

Art 6. -

(Modified, D. February 25, 1987 - Modified, D. March 19, 1998). - To be entitled to the label of origin “Beaujolais wines” the wines must come from grapes collected with good maturity and vinified in accordance with the local practice. The wines will profit from all the oenological processes currently authorized by the laws and payments in force.

Art 7. -

The wines for which, under the present decree, will be asserted the appellation contrôlée “Beaujolais wine”, could not be declared after harvest, be offered to the public, be dispatched, put on sale or sold, without in the declaration of harvest, the advertisements, on the leaflets, labels, containers unspecified, the label of origin referred to above being accompanied by the mention “Appellation contrôlée” in very apparent characters.

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 “Beaujolais wine”, 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 art, labels of origin (L. August 1, 1905 1st and 2; L. May 6, 1919, art 8; D. August 19, 1921, art 13), without damage of the sanctions of a tax nature, if it is necessary. Warning: Information pré senté be on this site are the subject of a clause of nonresponsabilité INAO_19370912_38802/11/2006 Downloadable document: AOC_Beaujolais_ (vins_blancs) _-_1998.doc