EDVR Eau-de-vie de vin de la Marne, Eau-de-vie de marc de Champagne machine translated reference / legal text
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Art 1st. -
(Modified, D. April 11, 1946) - Only will be able to profit respectively from the denominations brandy from wine of the Marne and brandy of marc from Champagne or Champagne marc, the brandies of wine and marc answering the conditions hereafter enumerated and coming from wines or marcs collected and distilled on the territories of Champagne delimited.
Art 2. -
(Modified, D. April 11, 1946 and D. 31 janv. 1948) - the wine brandies of the Marne will have to come from wines showing the characteristics of a healthy, honest and commercial wine, vinified in accordance with the local, honest and constant uses, other than damaged wines, of bad taste. However, the use of the wines of discharging and the wines of deposit is authorized in the condition which they are healthy products, in good condition of conservation. In all the cases, the wines implemented must not have a volatile acidity, expressed in sulphuric acid, higher than 1,20 gr. per liter. The brandies of marc of Champagne or Champagne marc will have to come exclusively from washed healthy marcs or not washed obtained by a wine making in conformity with the local, honest and constant uses.
Art 3. -
The brandies regulated by this decree will have to come from wines or marcs resulting from type of vines authorized for the production from the Champagne wine.
Art 4. -
(Modified, D. April 11, 1946 and D. Sept. 13, 1962) - the brandies being entitled to regulated names “brandies of wine of the Marne and brandies of marc of Champagne” or Champagne marc will have to be distilled by means of stills with pass by again or of discontinuous or continuous stills with first jet, heated with naked fire or the vapor, of a maximum capacity of 400 hectolitres raw material by twenty-four hours. The use of the rectifying columns is prohibited.
Art 5. -
The brandies regulated by this decree will have to present the average alcoholic strength according to (with 15° C): 1° (Modified, D. Oct 12, 1955) On the outlet side of the apparatuses: 71° G.L. to the maximum. 2° (Modified, D. April 11, 1946 and D. 21 janv. 1951) At the moment of the sale to the consumer: 40° G.L. at least. In all the cases they must have a content not-alcohol of 300 G. at least by hectolitre of pure alcohol for brandies of wine and 500 G. at least by hectolitre of pure alcohol for brandies of marc. They will be subjected to the appreciation of interprofessional commissions tasters appointed by the national Committee of the labels of origin under conditions which will be fixed by decree of the Minister, Secretary of State to agriculture.
Art 6. -
In the establishments where, using the same apparatuses, the alcohols reserved for the State and brandies regulated by this decree would be manufactured, a one month deadline will have to be run out between this two manufacture.
Art 7. -
(Modified, D. April 11, 1946). - On the declarations, parts of control, labels or invoices concerning brandies regulated by this decree, the words brandy of wine of the Marne, brandy of marc of Champagne or Champagne marc will have obligatorily to appear.
Art 8. -
Brandies regulated by this decree, when they are declared for manufacture offered to the public, dispatched, put on sale or sold do not have to carry like only mention of guarantee, in the declarations, the advertisements, on the leaflets, invoices, unspecified labels, containers, that words “regulated by decree”.
Art 9. -
The use of any indication or any sign likely to make believe in the purchaser that a brandy is entitled to the one of the denominations regulated above whereas it does not answer all the conditions envisaged with the present decree, will be continued, in accordance with the general legislation on the frauds and the protection of the labels of origin (art 1st and 2 of the law of August 1, 1905, art 8 of the law of May 6, 1919, art 13 of the decree of August 19, 1921), without damage of the sanctions of a tax nature if it is necessary, and will make lose with this brandy the benefit of the paragraph C of the law of January 13, 1941. Warning: Information pré senté be on this site are the subject of a clause of nonresponsabilité INAO_19420223_53502/11/2006 Downloadable document: EDVR_Eaux-de-vie_de_la_Marne.doc