AOC Mâcon (vins rouges et roses) machine translated reference / legal text
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Art 1st. -
(Modified, D. February 20, 1939) - Only are entitled to the appellation contrôlée Mâcon the red and rosy wines which, answering the conditions hereafter, were collected inside the territory of the district of Mâcon and the communes of Boyer, Bresse-on-Grosne, Champagny-under-Uxelles, Champlieu, Etrigny, Jugy, Laives, Mancey, Montceaux-Ragny, Nanton, Sennecey-the-Large, Towards, on the communes, parts of communes and pieces which will be delimited by the commission of experts named by the management committee of the national committee of the labels of origin in consideration of the geological nature of their ground and the local practice, honest and constant. The plan established by their care will have, after approval of the national committee of the labels of origin, being deposited in the town halls of the common interested parties before January 1, 1938. All the wines produced respectively in each allowed commune by the commission of experts will be able to associate the name of their commune of origin to that of Mâcon in the condition that this one is placed before the name of communal name, printed in identical characters and that the wines answer the particular regulations envisaged in articles 3 and 4.
Art 2. -
(Modified, D. August 6, 1964) - the wines being entitled to the appellation contrôlée “Mâcon” will have to come from following type of vines, other than all others. Principal type of vines: gamay black with white juice, pinot black, gray pinot. Additional type of vines: gamay with juice coloured in a proportion with most equal to 15% of encépagement total. However, starting from the grape harvest of 1970, this type of vine will not be allowed any more. The local use to incorporate, in the vines intended to produce the red and rosy wines with appellation contrôlée “Mâcon”, a certain number of white seedlings: pinot chardonnay, white white grape, gamay, known as melon, and of which the total percentage can amount to 15%, remains authorized.
Art 3. -
(Replaced, D. October 1, 1985) - to be entitled to the appellation contrôlée “Mâcon”, the red and rosy 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 per liter of must. Moreover, when the authorization of enrichment by dry sugaring is granted, the wines should not exceed a total voluminal alcoholometric title of 12%, under penalty of losing the right to name considered. The red and rosy wines for which the addition of the name of the commune of origin was asserted to that of name “Mâcon” must come from collected grapes with good maturity and present a minimum natural voluminal title alcoholometric of 10%. Cannot be regarded as being with good maturity any unit batch of vintage having a high content in sugar lower than 162 grams per liter of must. Moreover, when the authorization of enrichment by dry sugaring is granted, the wines should not exceed a total alcoholometric title of 13%, under penalty of losing the right to name considered. However the benefit of one or the other of names referred to above can be granted to the wines of a total voluminal title alcoholometric 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 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 with the budget and consumption on proposal of the national Institute of the labels of origin with the wines and brandies, after opinion of the interested producers' associations. The wines meeting the conditions of name “Mâcon” followed by the name of the commune of origin will also be entitled to the appellation contrôlée “higher Mâcon”.
Art 4. -
(Modified, D. August 26, 1982) [The basic output aimed to the article 1st of the decree n° 74.872 of modified October 19, 1974 relating to the producing output of the vineyards of the wines with controlled label of origin is fixed, for the wines of names “Mâcon”, “higher Mâcon” and “Mâcon” followed by the name of the commune of origin, with 55 hectolitres per hectare.] [See also the decrees n° 74.872 of October 19, 74.958 modified of November 20 and 75.842 of September 8. - ceiling limits classification: 20% - percentage of increase envisaged in article 6 of the decree referred to above n° 74.872: 60% of the annual output of name “ordinary Burgundy large”.] (Supplemented, D. 79.647 of July 27, 1979). - The benefit of the controlled label of origin, can be granted to the wines coming from the young vines only as from the third year following that during which the plantation was carried out places from there before August 31.
Art 5. -
In a one year deadline, proposals tending to specify a regulation of the density of the plantations and size will have to be made at the national committee of the labels of origin, by the Federation of agricultural associations of the district of Mâcon. (A. Sept. 17, 1956). Nevertheless are prohibited, from the publication of this decree, the practices of the incision annular or any other similar and that of the torsion of the vine shoot.
Art 6. -
The wines being entitled to the appellation contrôlée “Mâcon” will have to come from grapes collected with good maturity and vinified in accordance with the local practice. The rosy wines will have to come exclusively from red grapes vinified into rosy, in accordance with the local practice.
Art 7. -
The wines for which, under the present decree, the appellation contrôlée will be asserted “Mâcon” could not 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 accompanied by the mention “Appellation contrôlée” in very apparent characters. [The rosy wines of name “Mâcon” can profit, in accordance with the provisions of the decree of November 15, 1967 (cf drives “early product Wines”, of the qualification “Wine of early product”.]
Art 8. -
Use of any indication or any sign likely to make believe in the purchaser that a wine is entitled to the appellation contrôlée “Mâcon”, 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 art, labels of origin (L. August 1, 1905 1st and 2; L. May 6, 1919, art 8; D. August 19, 1921, art 13), 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_19370731_44602/11/2006 Downloadable document: AOC_Macon_ (vins_rouges_et_roses) _-_1985.doc