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AOVDQS Sauvignon de Saint-Bris machine translated reference / legal text

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Art 1st. -

Only can be put on sale and to circulate for the sale under the label of origin “Sauvignon de Saint-Bris”, accompanied by the mention “Label of origin delimited wine of higher quality”, the white wines which, profiting under the terms of the law from May 6, 1919 modified in particular by the law from July 22, 1927, of this label of origin, are supplied with a label under the conditions fixed at the present decree. Mention of this label, with its number, must be related to the titles of movement

Art 2. -

The conditions to which these wines must answer are as follows: I. - Surface of production. (Modified, A. Sept. 10, 1979) - the surface of production includes/understands the following communes of the department of Yonne: Saint-Breaking-the-vinous, Chitry, Irancy, Vincelottes, Quenne, Saint-Cyr-the-Colonists and Cravant, these four last partly only. The experts appointed by the management committee of the national institute of the labels of origin of the wines and brandies eliminate from this geographical surface the parts of communes or pieces unsuitable producing the wine of name. The plans establish by the experts are, after approval by the national institute of the labels of origin, deposited with the town hall of the common interested parties. II. - Encépagement Type of vine sauvignon exclusively. III. - Alcoholometric Title. (Replaced, A. Sept. 24, 1984) - to be entitled to the label of origin “delimited Wine of higher quality”, “Sauvignon de Saint-Bris”, the wines must come from collected grapes with good maturity and present a minimum natural voluminal title alcoholometric of 9,5%. Cannot be regarded as being with good maturity any unit batch of vintage having a high content in sugar lower than 136 grams per liter of must. Moreover, when the authorization of enrichment by dry sugaring is granted, the wines should not exceed a total voluminal alcoholometric title of 12,5%, under penalty of losing the right to name considered. However, the benefit of name referred to above can be granted to the wines of a total voluminal title alcoholometric higher than the limit 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 of consumption, on proposal of the national Institute of the labels of origin of the wines and brandies after opinion of the interested producers' associations. IV. - (Replaced, A. August 8, 1991) - Quantum with the hectare. The quantum with the hectare envisaged in article 5 of the modified decree of November 30, 1960 is fixed at 60 hectolitres per hectare of vine in production. [(D. 87/854 of October 22, 1987) The benefit of name can be 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 3. -

The delivery of the label envisaged with the article 1st is subordinated to the tasting and the preliminary analysis of a sample of the wine for which is claimed the benefit of the mention “delimited Wine of higher quality”. The procedure to be followed for the delivery of the label is fixed by the rules of procedure approved by the decree of November 15, 1961.

Art 4. -

The wines for which, under the present decree, name “Sauvignon de Saint-Briss was asserted” and which are 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, labels, invoices, containers unspecified, the label of origin referred to above being registered and is accompanied by the mention “Label of origin delimited wine of higher quality” in very apparent characters. A label delivered under the conditions determined by the rules of procedure aimed to article 3 of this decree must be affixed by the bottlers on the stopped containers containing these wines.

Art 5. -

The use of any indication or any sign likely to make believe in the purchaser that a wine is entitled to the label of origin accompanied by the mention in question, whereas it does not answer all the conditions fixed by this decree, is continued in accordance with the general legislation on the repression of the frauds and the protection of the labels of origin, 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_19740805_61102/11/2006 Downloadable document: AOVDQS_Sauvignon_de_Saint-Bris_-_1991.doc