AOC Sainte-Foy-Bordeaux machine translated reference / legal text
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Art 1st. -
Only to name “Sainte-Foy-Bordeaux” the red wines and white are entitled which, answering the conditions hereafter, were collected inside the following territory, except for the parts of the communes or the pieces located on modern alluvia: the canton of Holy-Foy in entirety and communes of Landerrouat, Gensac, the Pessac-on-Dordogne, Pellegrue and Massugas. The experts appointed by the management committee of the national Committee of the labels of origin will delimit on the plan of the common interested parties the limits of the surface of production thus defined and the plan established by their care will be deposited in the town halls of the common interested parties before January 1, 1938.
Art 2. -
(Modified. D. November 8, 1955, art 5, D. March 18, 1988) - the wines being entitled to the appellation contrôlée “Sainte-Foy-Bordeaux”, will have to come from following type of vines: For the red wines: Cabernet, red Merlot, Malbec, Small Verdot. For the white wines: Principal type of vines: Sémillon, Sauvignon, Muscadelle. Additional type of vines: White Merlot, Colombard, Mauzac, white Ugni. The total percentage of these additional type of vines in encépagement will not have to exceed 10%.
Art 3. -
(Modified. D. March 16, 1943, art 12 and D. April 2, 1958) - the white wines being entitled to the appellation contrôlée “Sainte-Foy-Bordeaux” will have to come from musts containing before any enrichment or concentration and at least, 187 grams of natural sugar per liter and to present, after fermentation, a minimum alcoholic strength of 11°. The red wines being entitled to the appellation contrôlée “Sainte-Foy-Bordeaux” will have to come from musts containing before any enrichment or concentration and at least 178 grams of natural sugar per liter and to present after fermentation a minimum alcoholic strength of 10° 5.
Art 4. -
(Modified. D. March 22, 1983) - the basic output is fixed at 50 hectolitres for the red wines and 55 hectolitres for the white wines per hectare. (Modified, 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. -
Within one year, of the proposals tending to specify a regulation of the size will have to be made at the national Committee of the labels of origin of the wines and brandies by the trade union of wine defense of Holy-Foy. [The provisions relating to the regulation of the size and the densities of plantation were defined by a decree of May 3, 1948] From the grape harvest of 1948, only will be entitled to the appellation contrôlée “Holy-Foy Bordeaux”, the wines answering all the conditions fixed by the decree of control of July 31, 1937, modified by the decrees of December 6, 1938,March 16, 1943 (art 12) and February 8, 1946, and coming from vines which will have been cut and planted in accordance with the provisions hereafter: Red type of vines: The only mode of size authorized is the size with cots and astes, the stock carrying two astes in eight eyes to the maximum and two cots with one or two eyes. White type of vines: Sémillon and sauvignon: the only mode of size authorized is the Guyot size. Simple Guyot with a aste in eight eyes to the maximum and a cot in two eyes. Guyot doubles to two astes in six eyes to the maximum and two cots in two eyes. Muscadelle: The only authorized modes of size are size with cots in two frank eyes, the simple Guyot size, the aste carrying six eyes to the maximum and the cot one or two eyes. The density of plantation will not have to be lower than 4.500 feet with the hectare. 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. -
(Modified, D. December 6, 1938) - the wines being entitled to the appellation contrôlée “Sainte-Foy-Bordeaux” will have to come from grapes collected with good maturity and vinified in accordance with the local practice. They will profit from all the nologic practices ? currently authorized by the laws and payments in force.
Art 6 (a). -
(Added, D. January 3, 1979) - From the harvest 1978, the red wines for which is asserted the controlled label of origin “Sainte-Foy-Bordeaux” cannot be put in circulation under this name without a certificate issued by the national Institute of the labels of origin of the wines and brandies under the conditions envisaged by the decree referred to above n° 74.871 of October 19, 1974 relating to the examinations analytical and organoleptic of the wines with controlled label of origin.
Art 7. -
The wines for which, under the present decree, the appellation contrôlée will be asserted “Sainte-Foy-Bordeaux” could not 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, labels, containers unspecified, the label of origin referred to above being accompanied by the mention “appellation contrôlée” in very apparent characters.
Art 8. -
The use of any indication or any sign likely to make believe in the purchaser that a wine is entitled to the appellation contrôlée “Sainte-Foy-Bordeaux”, 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. (L. August 1, 1905. art 1st and 2; L. May 6, 1919, art 8; D August 19, 1921. art 13), without damage of the sanctions D tax order. if it is necessary. Warning: Information pré senté be on this site are the subject of a clause of nonresponsabilité INAO_19370731_8002/11/2006 Downloadable document: AOC_Sainte-Foy-Bordeaux_-_1988.doc