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Possible Stricter Labels on Wines
Although this doesn’t necessarily affect consumers, you might be finding more information on that bottle of Bartenura wine. When you look at a bottle of wine, you may see “barrel fermented,” “bottle aged,” or “old vine.” You might have an idea of what this means but there is no correct definition for these terms and that might change. Wine makers love putting these terms on their bottles to try and distinguish their wine from the competition, but consumers don’t really know what the difference is.
Regulators now want to have clear and strict definitions of these terms which means you can’t just slap a term on your bottle of wine –and winemakers are not happy. One winemaker weighed in, “”It’s already time-consuming to get labels approved, so the more restrictions they put on, that’s an issue.” For example, the term “estate bottled” can only be used when certain criteria are met, i.e. where the grapes are grown. Some are angry that others use the word “estate” at all on their wine if they don’t follow this process.
We’ll see which side of the argument wine regulators fall on, but do these terms have any effect when you buy online wines?
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Posted on: Monday, May 9th, 2011 at 12:29 pm
Posted in: News
Tags: bartenura wine, online wines