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Art 1st. -
Only are entitled to the controlled label of origin “Château-Chalon” initially recognized by the decree of May 29, 1936 the elaborate yellow wines according to uses' local, honest and constant and answering the conditions below definite.
Art 2. -
The controlled label of origin “Château-Chalon” can be applied only to wines resulting from grape harvest collected to the territories of the following communes of the department of the Jura: Castle-trawl-net, Domblans, Menetru-the-Vineyard, Nevy-on-Pail, in the delimited surface, by pieces or parts 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 in the meetings of the 17 and May 18, 1984, on Commission proposal of experts indicated to this end. The plans of compartmental delimitation are deposited with the town hall of the communes concerned.
Art 3. -
The controlled label of origin “Château-Chalon” can be asserted only for wines coming from the type of vine savagnin other than very other.
Art 4. -
The controlled label of origin “Château-Chalon” can apply only to wines coming from collected grapes with good maturity and which present a minimum natural voluminal title alcoholometric of 12%. Cannot be regarded as being with good maturity any unit batch of vintage having a high content in sugar lower than 204 grams per liter of must.
Art 5. -
To be able to profit from the controlled label of origin “Château-Chalon”, the wines must answer the conditions fixed by the decree of September 10, 1993 referred to above. The basic output aimed to the article 1st of this decree is fixed at 50 hectolitres per hectare of vine in production. The output stop envisaged with the third subparagraph of article 4 of this decree is fixed at 50 hectolitres per hectare. A commission known as “of control of the vines and output”, whose members are named by the national Institute of the labels of origin, on a proposal from the trade union of defense of name “Château-Chalon”, examines, for each harvest, each piece likely to produce wines with name “Château-Chalon”. This commission gives an opinion on the farming state of the pieces and their aptitude to produce wines with controlled label of origin “Château-Chalon” taking into consideration condition of production defined by this decree, and in particular taking into consideration output stop. After opinion of the commission, the services of the national Institute of the labels of origin warn the interested parties of their possibility or not of asserting the production of the pieces in question in controlled label of origin “Château-Chalon”. The wine grower can make call of this decision near the national Institute of the labels of origin within four day as from the date of notification of the aforesaid the decision. A board of appeals, whose members are named by the national Institute of the labels of origin on a proposal from the trade union of defense of name “Château-Chalon” examines the complaint. With the exit of this examination, a final decision is notified with claiming by the services of the national Institute of the labels of origin within hour forty-eight which follows the passage of the board of appeals. The pieces in question should not be gathered the grapes before the passage of the board of appeals or else the call will be rejected. Rules of procedure approved by the national Committee of the wines and brandies of the national Institute of the labels of origin lay down the procedure of the Audit Board of the vines and the output and the board of appeals.
Art 6. -
The benefit of the controlled label of origin “Château-Chalon” can be granted to the wines coming from the young vines only as from the second year following that during which the plantation was carried out before August 31. The vines must present a number of feet at the hectare at least equal to 5.000 for any plantation carried out starting from the publication of this decree. The vines in terrace are not concerned with this provision. The size must be led in bowing (called locally “courgée”), guyot simple or double, with with more the ten eyes by rod and one or two let us coursons of renewal in two eyes.
Art 7. -
The wines with controlled label of origin “Château-Chalon” must be vinified on the territory of the communes included in the surface of production of the wines with name “Coasts of the Jura” and aimings with the article 1st (a) of the decree of July 31, 1937 relating to this name, to have undergone a sluggish fermentation followed, after racking, of an ageing out of barrel without ullaging one minimum duration six years making it possible the wine to acquire the “taste of yellow”.
Art 8. -
The wines with controlled label of origin “Château-Chalon” cannot be put in circulation without a certificate of approval delivered by the national Institute of the labels of origin, after examination carried out from January 1 of the seventh year which follows the year of harvest. The certificate of approval is issued at the end of a procedure which proceeds in two times whose methods are specified in rules of procedure, approved by the national committee of the wines and brandies of the institute. The year following harvest, for the wines asserted in controlled label of origin “Château-Chalon”, the national Institute of the labels of origin issues a certificate of aptitude for making of wine with label of origin controlled “Château-Chalon” after an analytical and organoleptic examination favorable provided it were not noted the non-observance of the conditions of production. The analytical and organoleptic examination procedure proceeds under the same conditions as those envisaged by the decree of October 19, 1974 referred to above and the decree of November 20, 1974 taken in application. If the wines are not declared suited to the development of the controlled label of origin “Château-Chalon”, the national Institute of the labels of origin notifies with interested final decision of non-acceptance of these wines in name “Château-Chalon”. The wines declared suited to making of wine with name “Château-Chalon” are the subject of a new analytical and organoleptic examination at the end of one period minimum six years of ageing.
Art 9. -
The wines being entitled alone to the controlled label of origin “Château-Chalon” could not be declared, after harvest, offered to the public, dispatched, put on sale or sold without, in the declaration of harvest, the advertisements, on the leaflets, labels, invoices, containers unspecified, the label of origin referred to above being accompanied by the mention “label of origin controlled” 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 “Château-Chalon”, 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 without damage of the sanctions of a tax nature, if it is necessary.
Art 11. -
The decree of May 29, 1936 relating to the controlled label of origin “Château-Chalon” and the provisions relating to the controlled label of origin “Château-Chalon” envisaged in the decree of January 15, 1942 relating to the size of the vines of names of the Jura are repealed. Warning: Information pré senté be on this site are the subject of a clause of nonresponsabilité INAO_19980604_18602/11/2006 Downloadable document: AOC_Chateau-Chalon_-_1998.doc