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Decree of February 12, 1999 relating to the controlled label of origin “Cabardès” - J.O n° 39 of February 16, 1999 Modifié by: Decree of June 17, 1999 modifying the decree of February 12, 1999 relating to the controlled label of origin “Cabardès” - J.O n° 144 of June 24, 1999

Art 1st. -

Only are entitled to the controlled label of origin “Cabardès” the red and rosy wines answering the conditions fixed hereafter.

Art 2. -

(Supplemented, D. June 17, 1999) the surface of production of the wines being entitled to the controlled label of origin “Cabardès” is delimited inside the territory of the following communes of the department of the Aude: Alzonne, Aragon, Conch-on-Orbiel, Fournes-Cabardès, Fraisse-Cabardès, Ilhes (Them), Lastours, Montolieu, Moussoulens, Pezens, Pennautier, Holy-Eulalie, Ventenac-Cabardès, Villanière, Villardonnel, Villedubert, Villegailhenc and Villemoustaussou.

Art (à). -

(Added, D. June 17, 1999) To be entitled to the controlled label of origin “Cabardès”, the wines must resulting from grape harvest be collected in the surface of production aimed to article 2, delimited by pieces or part of pieces, such as it was approved by the national committee of the wines and brandies of the national Institute of the labels of origin during the meeting of November 4, 1998, on Commission proposal of experts indicated to this end. The plans of delimitation are deposited with the town hall of the common interested parties.

Art 3. -

To be entitled to the controlled label of origin “Cabardès”, the wines must come from following type of vines: frank cabernet NR, cabernet-sauvignon NR, cinsaut NR, cot NR, iron NR, grenache NR, merlot NR and syrah NR, and being resulting from the assembly from at least two from type of vines belonging to the one and the other from the two categories hereafter: 1. Grenache NR and syrah NR: The whole of these type of vines must account for 40% of the encépagement.2 at least. Frank cabernet NR, cabernet-sauvignon NR and merlot NR: The whole of these type of vines must account for 40% of encépagement at least. On a purely derogatory basis, the type of vines aubun NR and carignan NR are authorized until harvest 2000 included. In this article, by the term encépagement, it is necessary to include/understand encépagement totality of the pieces producing the wine of name for the color considered.

Art 4. -

To be entitled to the controlled label of origin “Cabardès”, the wines come from collected grapes with good maturity and present a minimum average natural title alcoholometric voluminal for the red and rosy wines of 11,5%. Cannot be considered with good maturity any unit batch of vintage having a high content in sugar lower than 189 grams per liter.

Art 5. -

The basic output is fixed at 50 hectolitres with the hectare. The output stop is fixed at 66 hectolitres with the hectare. The benefit of name is granted to the wines coming from young vines only as from the second year following that during which the plantation was carried out places from there before August 31.

Art 6. -

The vines producing the wines being entitled to the controlled label of origin “Cabardès” are planted and cut according to following conditions': 1. Plantation of the vine, density: For any plantation carried out as from the publication of this decree, the minimal density is 4.000 feet to the hectare. The maximum spacing between the rows is 2,50 meters. 2. Cut: The type of vines grenache NR, cinsaut NR are led in the short face (goblet or range or cord of Royat); The other type of vines are led in the short face or the simple Guyot face: - short size: 6 let us coursons to 1 or 2 eyes maximum; - size in simple Guyot: 1 rod in 8 eyes maximum and a courson of recall to 1 or 2 eyes maximum. The type of vines aubun NR and carignan NR, allowed on a purely derogatory basis until harvest 2000 included, are led in the short face (goblet or range or cord of Royat).

Art 7. -

To be entitled to the controlled label of origin “Cabardès”, the wines are elaborate according to local and constant uses'. The grapes are brought quickly until the places of wine making without neither to be crushed nor packed. The red wines are obtained either by traditional wine making, comprising a preliminary pressing accompanied or not by picking off, or by implementation of grape harvest made up of whole grapes. The rosy wines are worked out by bleeding, draining or direct pressing. The wines profit from all the oenological processes authorized by the regulation in force. However, are prohibited, for making of these wines, the thermo-wine making, several successive pressings or pumpings, the vinificators continuous, the tanks with automatic reassembly, the tanks with recycling of marc, the érafloirs centrifugal, the drainers with screw and the presses continuous.

Art 8. -

The classified wines controlled “Cabardès” are put in circulation after obtaining a certificate of approval delivered by the national Institute of the labels of origin under the conditions envisaged by the decree No 74-871 of October 19, 1974 referred to above.

Art 9. -

The wines for which under the present decree the controlled label of origin “Cabardès is asserted” and which is presented under the aforementioned name cannot 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, unspecified labels, invoices, containers, name, referred to above being registered and is accompanied by the mention “Appellation contrôlée”, the whole in very apparent characters.

Art 10. -

The use of any indication or any sign likely to make believe in the purchaser that a wine is entitled to the controlled label of origin “Cabardès” whereas it does not answer all the conditions of production fixed by this decree is continued in accordance with the general legislation on the frauds and the protection of the labels of origin, without damage of the sanctions of a tax nature if it is necessary.

Art 11. -

The wines having received the label of the delimited wines of higher quality under the label of origin “Coasts of Cabardès and Orbiel” or “Cabardès” and answering the conditions of this decree are allowed for the benefit of the controlled label of origin if they obtain, within three month starting from the date of publication of this decree, the certificate of approval envisaged with the article, delivered above under the same conditions, after examinations analytical and organoleptic. The wines held by the wholesale dealers will be subjected to the same procedure: however, in this case, samplings will be carried out by the agents of the general direction of competition, the consumption and the repression of the frauds. The wines presented at the examinations analytical and organoleptic, for classification in controlled label of origin, lose definitively and immediately the benefit of the label of origin to which they had right, if they do not undergo the examinations successfully. The wines profiting from the label of origin “Cabardès”, to which was delivered before at the date of publication of this decree the label of the delimited wines of higher quality, can be marketed under their name until exhaustion of stocks, the provisions of article 2, paragraph 3, of the decree of November 30, 1960 relating to the delimited wines of higher quality, relating to the validity of use of the label of the delimited wines of qualié higher, not being more applicable to these wines. However, the wines which were not the subject of a marketing or which were not bottled before the expiry of a three months deadline following the publication of this decree could not be marketed under their label of origin “delimited Wine of higher quality” that if they obtain an extension of the validity of the label after a new examination of quality by analysis and tasting, organized by the trade union of defense of name under the control of the national Institute of the labels of origin.

Art 12. -

The decree of September 21, 1973 fixing the conditions of attribution of the label “Wine delimited of quality higher” than the classified wines “Coasts of Cabardès and of Orbiel” or “Cabardès” is repealed.

Art 13. -

The Minister for the economy, of finances and industry, the Minister for agriculture and fishing, the Secretary of State to the budget and the Secretary of State to small and medium-sized companies, to the trade and the craft industry are charged, each one in what relates to it, of the execution of this decree, which will be published in the Journal officiel de la République française. Warning: Information pré senté be on this site are the subject of a clause of nonresponsabilité INAO_19990212_40202/11/2006 Downloadable document: AOC_Cabardes_1999.doc