AOC Coteaux du Vendômois machine translated reference / legal text
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Art 1st. -
Only to the controlled label of origin “Coteaux du Vendômois are entitled”, supplemented or not by the words: “Loire Valley”, red, white and gray wines answering the conditions fixed hereafter.
Art 2. -
The geographical surface of production is defined by the territory of the following communes of the department of Dormouse-and-Expensive:
Artins, Azé, Seam-
on-Dormouse, Essarts, Fountain-the-Slopes, Houssay, Lavardin, Lunay, Marcilly-in-Beauce, Mazangé, Montoire-on-the-Dormouse, Naveil, the Rocks-the Bishop, Saint-Martin-of-Wood, Saint-Ouen, Saint-Rimay, Sougé, Ternay, Thoré-la-Rochette, Tréhet, Troo, Vendôme, Villavard, Villedieu-the-Castle, Villerable, Villiersfaux, Villiers-on-Dormouse. The wines result from grape harvest collected on a surface delimited by pieces or parts of pieces, such as it was approved by the national committee “wines and brandies” of the national Institute of the labels of origin at the time of the the 30 and May 31, 1991 meeting on the territory of the communes referred to above, 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. -
The wines come from following type of vines, other than very other: has) Red wines The wines come from the wine or grape assembly resulting obligatorily from three principal type of vines and possibly from additional type of vine. - Principal Type of vines: Pineau d' Aunis NR, accounting for 40% of encépagement at least; Frank cabernet NR, pinot black NR, each one of them in a proportion ranging between 10% at least and 40% to the maximum of encépagement; - Additional Type of vine: gamay NR, representing to the maximum 20% of encépagement. From harvest 2016, this percentage will be tiny room to 10% maximum of encépagement. b) Gray wines Single type of vine: pineau of Aunis NR. c) white Wines - Principal Type of vine: chenin B, locally called pineau of the Loire. - Complementary Type of vine: chardonnay B, representing to the maximum 20% of encépagement. The assemblies of the wines resulting from various type of vines when they are vinified separately must be carried out in the wine containers before the examinations analytical and organoleptic. In this article, one understands by the term “encépagement” encépagement of the totality of the pieces of the exploitation producing the wine of name in the color considered.
Art 4. -
The vines must be planted and cut according to following provisions': has) Plantation: - a distance of 2,10 meters to the maximum enters the rows; - a distance between stocks on the row ranging between 0,90 meter and 1,10 meter. b) Control: - height of 0,55 meter to the maximum enters the ground and the lower wire of training; - height of at least trained foliage equalizes with 0,6 times the distance between the rows. The vines not answering the provisions above bearing on the densities of plantation and the modes of control, planted before the publication of this decree, retain the right to name “Coteaux du Vendômois” until harvest of the year 2025 included, subject to the respect of the condition relating to the height of trained foliage referred to above. c) Size: The three following modes are authorized, the total of the frank eyes by stock not having to exceed eleven: - Guyot size with only one length drink carrying seven frank eyes to the maximum and to more both let us coursons; - size with two half-rods carrying each one four frank eyes to the maximum; - size in cord of Royat with let us coursons carrying two frank eyes to the maximum.
Art 5. -
The wines come from collected grapes with good maturity and present a minimum average natural title alcoholometric voluminal of 9% for the red and gray wines and 9,5% for the white wines. Cannot be regarded as being with good maturity any unit batch of vintage having a high content in sugar lower than 153 grams per liter of must for the red wines and 144 grams per liter of must for the white and gray wines. When the authorization of enrichment is granted, the wines should not exceed a maximum total voluminal title alcoholometric of 12,5% for the red wines and 12% for the white and gray wines, under penalty of losing the right to name. The white wines present, after fermentation, a sugar content residual lower than 4 grams per liter.
Art 6. -
The basic output is fixed at 55 hectolitres with the hectare for the red and white wines and at 60 hectolitres with the hectare for the gray wines. The output stop is fixed at 61 hectolitres with the hectare for the red and white wines and at 66 hectolitres with the hectare for the gray wines. The benefit of the controlled label of origin “Coteaux du Vendômois” is granted to the wines coming from the young vines only as from the second year following that during which the plantation was carried out places from there before July 31.
Art 7. -
The grapes are vinified in accordance with the local practice. The gray wines must be worked out by the technique of direct pressing preceding fermentation, with or without preliminary pressing. The concentration of musts and the wines is prohibited.
Art 8. -
The classified wines controlled “Coteaux du Vendômois” cannot be put in circulation without a certificate of approval delivered by the national Institute of the labels of origin, after having satisfied the examinations analytical and organoleptic as envisaged by the regulation in force.
Art 9. -
The wines for which, under the present decree, is asserted the controlled label of origin “Coteaux du Vendômois” not being able to be declared after harvest, to be offered to the public, to be dispatched, put on sale or to be sold without, in the declaration of harvest, the advertisements, on the leaflets, labels, invoices, containers unspecified, the label of origin referred to above are registered and accompanied by the mention “appellation contrôlée”, the whole in very apparent characters. The name of name must be registered on the labels in characters whose dimensions, as well in height as in width, should not be lower than half of those of the characters of any other mention appearing there. Dimensions of the characters of the words “Loire Valley” should not be higher, as well in height as in width, to two thirds of those of the characters of the name of name. The mention of a type of vine name on the label is prohibited.
Art 10. -
The use of any indication or any sign likely to make believe in the purchaser that a wine is entitled to name “Coteaux du Vendômois”, whereas it does not answer all the conditions fixed by this decree, will be 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 it is necessary.
Art 11. -
From harvest 1998, the wines having received the label of the delimited wines of higher quality under name “Coteaux du Vendômois” and answering the conditions of this decree can be allowed for the benefit of the controlled label of origin, if they 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 will be subjected to the same procedure; however, in this case, samplings will be 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 the benefit of the label of origin “delimited Wine of higher quality”. The wines profiting from the label of origin “Coteaux du Vendômois” in bulk and not sold with the expiry of a three months deadline following the entry into force 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 “Coteaux du Vendômois” in bulk to the property and already sold, to which was delivered before at the entry in force of this decree the label of the delimited wines of higher quality, can circulate under their name until exhaustion of stocks, the provisions of article 2, paragraph 3, relating to the validity of use by the producer of the label of the delimited wines of higher quality of the decree No 60-1284 of November 30, 1960 relating to the delimited wines of higher quality not being more applicable to these wines.
Art 12. -
The decree of modified June 21, 1968 fixing the conditions of attribution of the label “delimited Wines of quality higher” than the classified wines “Coteaux du Vendômois” is repealed.
Art 13. -
The Minister for the economy, of finances and industry, the Minister for agriculture and fishing, the Secretary of State to the budget and the Secretary of State to small and medium-sized companies, to the trade, the craft industry 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_20010502_37402/11/2006 Downloadable document: AOC_Coteaux_du_Vendomois_-_2001.doc