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Decree of March 19, 1998 relating to certain labels of origin controlled of the Burgundy area - J.O n° 72 of March 26, 1998
Art 1st. -
Only are entitled to the appellation contrôlée “Closed of Lambrays” the red wines which, answering the conditions hereafter, were collected on the pieces included/understood in the surface of production delimited by the national committee of the national Institute of the labels of origin, in its meeting of February 12, 1981: Commune of Morey-Saint-Denis Section AP: Meix Shareholder: 99 to 102, 104, 105 (1 hectare, 12 ares, 97 centiares); Larrets: 106, 107 (5 hectares, 71 ares, 87 centiares): Mussel beds: 108 (1 hectare, 99 ares, 10 centiares). The surface of production, such as it results from the provisions of the subparagraph above, will be deferred on the cadrastal maps and will be deposited with the town hall of Morey-Saint-Denis.
Art 2. -
The wines being entitled to Closed name “of Lambrays” must come from following type of vines, other than all others: pinot noirien, pinot beurot, pinot liébault. The local use to incorporate in the vines a certain number of seedlings of pinot white or gray or chardonnay, of which the percentage can rise to the maximum at 15%, remains authorized.
Art 3. -
The wines being entitled to the appellation contrôlée “Closed of Lambrays” must come from collected grapes with good maturity and present a minimum natural voluminal title alcoholometric of 11,5%. Cannot be regarded as being with good maturity any unit batch of vintage having a high content in sugar lower than 189 grams of sugar per liter of must. Moreover, when the authorization of enrichment by dry sugaring is granted, the wines should not exceed the total voluminal alcoholometric title of 14,5%, under penalty of losing the right to name However, the benefit of name 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 after investigation carried out into his request presented before the vintage of the vines concerned. Notification of the exemptions aimed to the preceding subparagraph must be addressed to the local services of the general direction of the taxes and to the Fraud Squad and of the quality control. The limits aimed to the subparagraphs above can be modified, when the climatic conditions justify it, by decree of the Minister for agriculture on proposal of the national Institute of the labels of origin after opinion of the interested producers' associations.
Art 4. -
(Modified, D. August 26, 1982) - with the appellation contrôlée “Closed of Lambrays” only the wines can claim answering the conditions of the decree n° 74.872 of modified October 19, 1974. The basic output aimed to the article 1st of this decree is equal to 35 hectolitres per hectare of vine in production. The percentage envisaged in its article 3 is fixed at 20%. (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 5. -
The wines must come from vines answering the farming conditions hereafter definite: I. - Size has) fine black Pinot or noirien. 1° Size out of goblet or range comprising three to four let us coursons to three or four eyes in addition to the bourillon, the total of the frank eyes on the same foot which cannot be higher than twelve. 2° Size in cord of Royat, comprising to the maximum four let us coursons in two eyes in addition to the bourillon. The establishment of the cord must be made in at least two years. The first year, the long wood left with the size should not exceed the medium of the interval which separates the foot cut from the closest stock. The second year, the cord can comprise a prolongation of five eyes to the maximum. The maximum of renovation and replacements total or partial of cord in the same piece should not relate to more than 15% of the stocks. The total of the frank eyes left on the same stock cannot in no case to be higher than twelve. 3° Size with long wood, known as Guyot Size, comprising a long wood or rod and a courson of replacement or size with a maximum of eight frank eyes on the whole by stock. However, in order to facilitate the attachage, the total number of mérithales or internodes left with the size could be higher than eight, provided that the complementary buds are removed at the time of the size or the épamprage or évasivage and, at the latest, when the young growths reach 15 centimetres length. To in no case, starting from this stage, the number of eyes could not be higher than eight. This size could be carried out in the young vines only starting from the seventh sheet. b) Others pinots black They must be cut according to the two modes of control goblet (or range) and cord of Royat, under the same conditions as those fixed for the black pinot end. The Guyot size is rigorously prohibited on these varieties. II. - Density of the plantations Last nine thousand to thirteen thousand feet with the hectare.
Art 6. -
(Modified, D. March 19, 1998) - the wines being entitled to the appellation contrôlée “Closed of Lambrays” profit from all the oenological processes authorized by the laws and payments in force.
Art 7. -
The wines cannot be put in circulation with the label of origin controlled “Closed of Lambrays” without a certificate issued by the national Institute of the labels of origin under the conditions envisaged by the provisions of the decree n° 74.871 of modified October 19, 1974.
Art 8. -
(Supplemented, D. December 6, 1988). - The wines for which, under the present decree, is asserted the appellation contrôlée “Closed of Lambrays” 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, containers unspecified, the label of origin referred to above being registered and is accompanied by the mention “Appellation contrôlée” in very apparent characters. The ranking “Great Vintage” must obligatorily be reproduced on the label. This mention is carried immediately below the name of name in characters to most equal, as well in height as in width, to two thirds of those used for the name of name.
Art 9. -
The use of any indication or any sign likely to make believe in the purchaser that a wine is entitled to the appellation contrôlée “Closed of Lambrays” 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 production 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_19810427_41502/11/2006 Downloadable document: AOC_Clos_des_Lambrays_-_1998__.doc