Switch to desktop edition
Switch to mobile edition

AOVDQS Fiefs vendéens machine translated reference / legal text

This text was automatically translated, so the grammar may be a little strange. We hope this text still proves useful.

Art 1st. -

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

Art 2. -

The conditions of production to which these wines must answer are as follows: I. - Surface of production It is consisted the delimited surface approved by the national Committee of the labels of origin of the wines and brandies in its meeting of May 18, 1984 inside the territory of the nineteen following communes: Department of the Vendée: Bessay, Chaillé-under-the-Ormeaux, Field-Saint-Father, Castle-Guibert, Corpe, the Seam, Mareuil-on-Lay-Dissais, Rosnay, Saint-Florent-of-Wood, the Apron, Brem-on-Sea, Brétignolles-on-Sea, Island of Olonne, Landevieille, Olonne-on-Sea, Talmont-Saint-Hilaire, Vairy, Pissotte, Vix. The plans of delimitation are deposited in the town halls concerned. It. - Encépagement To be entitled to the label of origin “Fiefs vendéens”, the wines must come from following type of vines other than all others: A. - In the whole of the surface of production: has) Red and rosy wines: Principal type of vines: gamay black with white juice and pinot black having to represent at least, together or separately, 50% of encépagement of all the pieces producing these wines. Complementary type of vines: frank cabernet, cabernet sauvignon, négrette and gamay chaudenay, this last type of vine not having to exceed 15% of encépagement of the whole of the pieces producing these wines and which must be eliminated within a ten years deadline. b) White wines: Principal type of vine: chenin white, this type of vine having to represent a minimum of 50% of encépagement of the whole of the pieces producing these wines; Complementary type of vines: sauvignon white, chardonnay white. B. - On the delimited territory of the communes of Vix and Pissotte, the type of vine white melon is allowed for making of white wines in assembly with other type of vines in a maximum proportion of 20% of encépagement of the whole of the pieces producing these white wines. C. - On the delimited territory of the communes of Brem-on-Sea, Bretignolles-on-Sea, lle of Olonne, Landevieille, Olonne-on-Sea, Talmont and Vaire, the type of vine gray groslot is allowed for making of white or rosy wines in assembly with other type of vines, in a maximum proportion of 40% of encépagement of the whole of the pieces producing these white or rosy wines. This proportion will be brought back to 30% starting from the grape harvest 1994. III. - Alcoholometric Title To be entitled to the label of origin “Fiefs vendéens”, the wines must come from collected grapes with good maturity and present a minimum natural voluminal title alcoholometric of 9%. Cannot be regarded as being with good maturity any unit batch of vintage having a high content in sugar lower than 144 grams of sugar per liter of must for the red wines and than 136 grams of sugar per liter of must for the white wines and the rosy wines. Moreover, when the authorization of enrichment by dry sugaring 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 wines and the rosy wines, 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 alcoholometric title higher than the limits 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. - Quantum with the hectare The quantum with the hectare envisaged in article 5 of the decree of modified November 30, 1960 is fixed at 50 hectolitres per hectare of vine in production. To be entitled to the label of origin “Fiefs vendéens”, the wines can come from young vines only as from the third year following that during which the plantation was carried out places from there before August 31. V. - farming Methods The density of plantation must be at least 4.500 feet to the hectare The vines must be cut in guyot simple, the rod having a maximum loading of 8 frank eyes, or in guyot double, the maximum loading being then of 6 frank eyes per rod. The maximum loading with the hectare must be lower than 60.000 frank eyes.

Art 3. -

The delivery of the label envisaged with the article 1st of this decree is subordinated to the tasting and the preliminary analysis of a sample of the wine for which is asserted the benefit of the mention “Label of origin 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 3 (a). -

(Added A. of March 12, 1986) - the label of origin “Fiefs vendéens” must obligatorily be followed in the declarations and the labelling of the one of the following names: Mareuil, Brem, Vix, Pissotte for the wines which answer the conditions of production above definite and which result from grapes collected inside the surface of production as delimited in accordance with article 2 (§ 1) above on the territories of the following communes: Mareuil: communes of Bessay, Chaillé-under-the-Ormeaux, Field-Saint-Father, Castle-Guibert, Corpe, the Seam, Mareuil-on-Lay-Dissais, Rosnay, Saint-Florent-of-Wood and the Apron. Brem: communes of Brem-on-Sea, Brétignolles-on-Sea, Island of Olonne, Landevieille, Olonne-on-Sea, Vairy and Talmont-Saint-Hilaire. Vix: commune of Vix. Pissotte: commune of Pissotte. One of the four names referred to above will have to be indicated immediately below the name of and the registered voter label of origin in characters of dimensions with most equal to half of those of the name of the label of origin.

Art 4. -

The wines for which, under the present decree, the label of origin was asserted “Fiefs vendéens” 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, posters, 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”, the whole in very apparent characters. A label delivered under the conditions determined in 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, will be 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.

Art 6. -

The wines held in stock by the producers, at the date of publication of this decree, and having profited from the denomination “Local wine of the Fiefs vendéens” can be dispatched with the label of the delimited wines of higher quality under the label of origin “Fiefs vendéens”, provided they obtain within three month the label of the wines delimited of higher quality after a new analytical and organoleptic control, according to the procedure envisaged in article 2 of the decree of November 30, 1960. The wines of the species held by the wholesale dealers are subjected to the same procedure; however, in this case, samplings are carried out by the agents of the direction of the consumption and the repression of the frauds. Warning: Information pré senté be on this site are the subject of a clause of nonresponsabilité INAO_19841024_15702/11/2006 Downloadable document: AOVDQS_Fiefs_Vendeens_-_1986.doc