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Decree of March 17, 2004 relating to the controlled label of origin “Valençay” - J.O n° 68 of March 20, 2004 page 5409
Art 1. Only can profit from the controlled label of origin “Valençay” followed or not name “Loire Valley” the white, red and rosy wines answering the conditions fixed by this decree.
Art 2. The geographical surface of production of the wines is consisted the territory of the following communes: Department of Indre Chabris, Faverolles, Fontguenand, Luçay-
the-Male, Lye, Menetou-on-Nahon, Parpeçay, Poulaines, Valençay, Varennes-on-Fouzon, Vernelle (It), Veuil, Villentrois. Department of Dormouse-and-Expensive Saddle-on-Expensive. The wines result from grapes collected in the geographical surface on a surface delimited by pieces or parts of piece, such as it was approved by the national committee of the wines and brandies of the national Institute of the labels of origin (INAO) in its 23 and June 24, 1994 meeting, on Commission proposal of experts indicated to this end. The compartmental surface thus delimited is deferred on the cadrastal maps deposited to the town hall of the common interested parties.
Art 3. 1° the red or rosy wines come from following type of vines: has) Principal type of vines: -
gamay NR, in a minimal of 30% and maximum proportion of 60% of encépagement; - pinot black NR and cot NR, accounting for at least 20% together encépagement. As from harvest 2004, the proportion of each one of these two type of vines cannot be lower than 10% of encépagement. b) Additional type of vines: - for the red wines: frank cabernet NR and cabernet sauvignon NR limited together or separately to a maximum proportion of 20% of encépagement; - for the rosy wines: pineau of aunis NR, in a maximum proportion of 30% of encépagement; frank cabernet NR and cabernet sauvignon NR limited together or separately to a maximum proportion of 20% of encépagement. The cabernet sauvignon NR is authorized only for the pieces in place before January 24, 2000. 2° the white wines proviennnent following type of vines: has) Principal type of vine: sauvignon B, in a minimal proportion of 70% of encépagement; b) Additional type of vines: orbois B and chardonnay B. 3° encépagement is included/understood like that of the totality of the pieces of the exploitation producing the wine of name for the color considered. The red or rosy wines come from the wine or grape assembly resulting from three principal type of vines and possibly from additional type of vines aimed to the 1° from this article. The white wines come either from only principal type of vine, or of an assembly of grapes or wines resulting from two type of vines at least, of which the principal type of vine, aimed to the 2° of this article. The assemblies of the wines resulting from various type of vines, when they are vinified separately, are carried out in the wine containers before the taking away envisaged with article R. 641-96 of the rural code.
Art 4. has) The vines have a minimal density of 6.000 feet at the hectare, the spacing between the rows which cannot exceed 1,70 meter. b) The height of trained foliage cannot be lower than 0,6 times the spacing between the rows. This height is measured between the lower limit of the foliage, measured at least with 30 centimetres above the ground, and the higher limit of trimming, measured with at least 20 centimetres above the higher wire of training. The height between the ground and the lower wire of training cannot exceed 0,55 meter. c) However, the vines places from there before January 24, 2000 which do not respect the provisions of the paragraphs has and B of this article continue to profit for their harvest from the right to the controlled label of origin “Valençay” until their pulling up and at the latest until harvest 2024 included, subject respecting the minimal height of trained foliage above definite. The exploitations concerned subscribe near the services of the INAO an individual bill book of reconversion of the vines concerned. This bill book provides that at least 50% of the vines concerned with the exemption are put in conformity with the provisions of this decree for harvest 2012. D) The three following modes of size are authorized: -
the Guyot size with only one length drink carrying seven frank eyes to the maximum for the type of vine gamay NR, eight frank eyes to the maximum for other type of vines, with one or two let us coursons per foot; - the size called in Y to two long drink carrying four frank eyes each one to the maximum, with one or two let us coursons per foot; - the short size with let us coursons, the arms being cut to two or three frank eyes by courson. The total number of frank eyes per foot cannot exceed eight for the type of vine gamay NR and eleven for other type of vines.
Art 5. The wines come from collected grapes with good maturity and present a minimum natural voluminal title alcoholometric of 10%. Cannot be regarded as being with good maturity any unit batch of vintage having a high content in sugars lower than 153 grams per liter of must for the white wines, with 162 grams per liter of must for the red and rosy wines. When an authorization of enrichment is granted, the wines cannot present one liter alcoholometric voluminal total higher than 12,5%, under penalty of losing the right to name considered.
Art 6. The basic output aimed to article R. 641-
73 of the rural code is fixed at 60 hectolitres with the hectare for the white wines and at 55 hectolitres with the hectare for the red and rosy wines. The output stop envisaged with article R. 641-76 of the rural code is fixed at 68 hectolitres with the hectare for the white wines and at 65 hectolitres with the hectare for the red and rosy wines.
Art 7. The recourse to any technique of concentration is prohibited. The wines are vinified in accordance with the local practice. The white and rosy wines cannot present, after fermentation, a sugar content fermentable higher than 3 grams per liter. The red wines cannot present, after fermentation, a sugar content fermentable higher than 2,5 grams per liter.
Art 8. The wines profiting from the controlled label of origin “Valençay” 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 articles R. 641-
94 at R. 641-98 of the rural code. For the wines held with the property and neither conditioned nor marketed, the period of validity of the certificate of approval is limited to March 31 of the second year following that of harvest. With the expiry of the period of validity of the certificate of approval, the producer can ask to renew the aforementioned certificate for volumes in question. This renewal is carried out according to the procedure fixed by articles R. 641-94 at R. 641-98 of the rural code. During each renewal, the period of validity of the certificate of approval is extended for a further one year as from the expiration date of the preceding certificate.
Art 9. The wines for which, under the present decree, the controlled label of origin “Valençay is renvendiquée” cannot be declared after harvest, be offered to the public, be dispatched, put on sale or be sold without, in the accompanying documents, the declaration of stock, the advertisements, on the leaflets, labels, invoices, containers unspecified, the controlled label of origin referred to above being registered and is accompanied by the mention “controlled appelation”, the whole in very apparent characters. The terms composing the name of name are registered on the labels in characters whose dimensions, so much in height than in width, cannot be lower than half of that of the largest characters appearing there. No mention of the type of vine name must appear in the same visual field as that of the name of the appelation of controlled origin “Valençay”.
Art 10. The use of any indication or any sign likely to make believe in the purchaser whom a wine profits from the appelation of controlled origin “Valençay” whereas it does not answer all the conditions 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 necessary.
Art 11. From harvest 2002, the wines having received the label of the delimited wines of higher quality under the label of origin “Valençay” and answering the conditions of this decree can profit from the label of origin controlled, if it obtain, within three month starting from the date of publication 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 are subjected to the same procedure; however, in this case, samplings are 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, if they do not undergo these examinations successfully, the benefit of the label of origin “delimited Wine of higher quality” to which they had right. The wines profiting from the label of origin “Valençay” in bulk or not sold with the expiry of a three months deadline following the date of publication 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 “Valençay” in bulk to the property and already sold, 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 registered with article R. 641-
121 of the rural code 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 August 10, 1970 fixing the conditions of attribution of the label “delimited Wine of quality higher” than the wines profiting from the label of origin “Valençay” is repealed.
Art 13. The Minister for the economy, of finances and industry, the Minister for agriculture, the food, of fishing and the rural businesses, the minister delegated to the budget and the budgetary reform and the Secretary of State to small and medium-
sized companies, to the trade, the craft industry, the liberal professions and consumption 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_20040317_62302/11/2006 Downloadable document: AOC_Valencay_-_2004.doc