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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 controlled label of origin “La Grande Rue” the red wines answering the conditions fixed hereafter.

Art 2. -

To be entitled to the controlled label of origin “La Grande Rue”, the wines must result from grape harvest collected in the surface of production delimited inside the following territory: Commune of Vosne-Romanée Section AM: Number 1: “La Grande Rue”: ........... 1 hectare 42 ares 07 centiares; Number 2: “Gaudichots”: ........... 0 hectare 20 ares 96 centiares; Number 8: “Gaudichots”: ........... 0 hectare 02 ares 22 centiares, such as it was approved by the national Committee of the wines and brandies of the national Institute of the labels of origin in its meeting of November 8, 1990. The plans of delimitation are deposited with the town hall of the commune concerned after carryforward on the cadrastal maps.

Art 3. -

The wines being entitled to the controlled label of origin “La Grande Rue” must come from the black type of vine pinot (called locally pinot noirien or pinot black end). The local use to incorporate among the vines intended to produce the red wines with controlled label of origin “La Grande Rue” a certain number of white seedlings pinot white, gray pinot or chardonnay, of which the percentage can rise with 15 p.100 to the maximum, remains authorized.

Art 4. -

The wines being entitled to the controlled label of origin “La Grande Rue” must come from collected grapes with good maturity and present a minimum natural voluminal title alcoholometric of 11,5 p.100. 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 is granted, the wines should not exceed the total voluminal alcoholometric title of 14,5 p.100, 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 its 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 Departments of the general direction of the taxes and to the general Directorate of competition, 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 decree of the Minister for the economy and finances and the Minister for agriculture, on proposal of the national Institute of the labels of origin, after opinion of the interested producers' associations.

Art 5. -

With the controlled label of origin “La Grande Rue” only the wines can claim answering the conditions of the decree n° 74-872 of October 19, 1974 referred to above. 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 p.100. 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 6. -

The wines must come from vines answering the farming conditions hereafter definite: A. - Size has) Fine black Pinot or pinot 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 replacement totals or partial of cord in the same piece should not relate to more than 15 p.100 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 entrenoeuds 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 out of 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. c) white Pinot, gray pinot and chardonnay: They must be cut under the same conditions as the black pinot end and the pinot noirien. B. - Density of the plantations It lies between new thousand and thirteen thousand feet with the hectare.

Art 7. -

(Modified, D. March 19, 1998) - the wines being entitled to the controlled label of origin “La Grande Rue” profit from all the oenological processes authorized by the laws and payments in force.

Art 8. -

The wines cannot be put in circulation with the controlled label of origin “La Grande Rue” 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 October 19, 1974 referred to above.

Art 9. -

The wines for which, under the present decree, assertis asserted the controlled label of origin “La Grande Rue”, 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 controlled 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, with the third of those used for the name of name.

Art 10. -

The use of any indication or any sign likely to make believe in the purchaser that a wine is entitled to the controlled label of origin “La Grande Rue” 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 it is necessary. Warning: Information pré senté be on this site are the subject of a clause of nonresponsabilité INAO_19920702_20902/11/2006 Downloadable document: AOC_La_Grande_Rue_-_1998__.doc