AOC Côtes du Forez machine translated reference / legal text
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Art 1st. -
Only to the controlled label of origin “Coasts are entitled of Drill” the red and rosy wines answering the conditions fixed hereafter.
Art 2. -
The surface of production of the wines is defined by the territory of the following communes of the department of the Loire:
Arthun, Boën, Bussy-
Albieux, Champdieu, Ecotay-l' Olme, Leigneux, Lézigneux, Marcilly-le-Châtel, Marcoux, Moingt-Montbrison, Pralong, Saint-Germain-Laval, Saint-George-High-City, Saint-Sixth, Saint-Thomas-the-Guard, Holy-Agathe-the-Bouteresse, Trelins. The wines result from grape harvest collected in the surface of production delimited 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 of November 3, 1999, on the Commission proposal of experts indicated to this end. The surface thus delimited is deferred on the cadrastal maps deposited to the town hall of the common interested parties.
Art 3. -
The wines come from following type of vine, other than very other: gamay NR.
Art 4. -
The minimal density of plantation is of 4.000 stocks to the hectare. The maximum spacing between the rows is 2,50 meters. The height is 0,55 meter to the maximum between the ground and the lower wire of training. The height of trained foliage must be at least equal to 0,56 times the spacing between the rows. This height lies between the limit lower of the foliage, measured at least with 30 centimetres above the ground, and the height of trimming, at least measured with 20 centimetres above the stakes carry-wire. The vines planted before the entry into force of this decree not answering these provisions can produce wines profiting from the controlled label of origin “Coasts from Drill” until their pulling up and at the latest until the harvest of the year 2025 included, subject respecting the minimal height of foliage above definite. The four following modes of size are authorized: Short sizes out of goblet or cords simple or double: In these two modes of size, the total number of frank eyes per stock will not have to exceed eleven, each one of coursons being able to comprise only two frank eyes to the maximum. Simple size in guyot: In this case, the total number of frank eyes per stock will not have to exceed ten, with only one length drink carrying eight frank eyes to the maximum and a courson in two frank eyes to the maximum.
Art 5. -
The wines come from collected grapes with good maturity and present a minimum average natural title alcoholometric voluminal of 9%. 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 rosy wines and than 162 grams per liter of must for the red wines. When the authorization of enrichment is granted, the wines should not exceed a maximum total voluminal title alcoholometric of 12,5% under penalty of losing the right to this name.
Art 6. -
The basic output is fixed at 55 hectolitres with the hectare. The output stop is fixed at 66 hectolitres with the hectare. The benefit of the controlled label of origin “Coasts of Drill” is granted to the wines coming from the young vines only as from the second year following that during which the plantation was carried out places from there before August 31.
Art 7. -
The grapes are vinified in accordance with the local practice.
Art 8. -
The classified wines controlled “Coasts of Drill” cannot be put in circulation without a certificate of approval delivered by the national Institute of the labels of origin under the conditions envisaged by the decree of October 19, 1974 referred to above.
Art 9. -
The wines for which under the present decree was asserted the controlled label of origin “Coasts of Drill” cannot 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, labels, invoices, containers unspecified, the label of origin referred to above is registered and accompanied by the mention “Appellation contrôlée”, the whole in very apparent characters. The name of name must be registered on the labels in characters whose dimensions, as well in height as in width, should not be lower than half of those of the characters of any other mention appearing there.
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 “Coasts of Drill” 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, under damage of sanctions of a tax nature, if it is necessary.
Art 11. -
From harvest 1999, the wines having received the label of the delimited wines of higher quality under the label of origin “Coast of Drill” and answering the conditions of this decree can be allowed for the benefit of the controlled label of origin, if they obtain within three month after the into force entry of this decree the certificate of approval envisaged in article 8, 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 “delimited Wine of higher quality” to which they had right if they do not undergo the examinations successfully. The wines profiting from the label of origin “Coasts from Drill” in bulk and not sold with the expiry of a three months deadline following the entry into force of this decree can be marketed under their label of origin “delimited Wine of higher quality”, 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. The wines profiting from the label of origin “Coasts from Drill” in bulk with the property and already sold to which was delivered before at the entry in force of this decree the label of the wines delimited higher quality can circulate under their name until exhaustion of stocks, the provisions of article 2, paragraph 3, of the decree of November 30, 1960 relating to the validity of use by the producer of the label of the delimited wines of higher quality not being more applicable to these wines.
Art 12. -
The decree of modified January 23, 1956 fixing the conditions of attribution of the label “delimited Wine of quality higher” than the classified wines “Coasts of Drill” 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_20000223_23802/11/2006 Downloadable document: AOC_Cotes_du_Forez_-_2000.doc