When Is a Wine Not a Wine? When European Regulations Say It’s Not
When Is a Wine Not a Wine? When European Regulations Say It’s Not
May 30, 2012 6
(NYTimes) - Poured from the bottle, the ruby-colored liquid looks like wine. Swirled around a glass, it smells like wine. Sure enough, it tastes like wine, too. But, at least within the confines of the European Union, the closest it may come to be being called wine is “fruit-based alcoholic beverage.”
The ruling is bad news for the Chapel Down Winery, which crushed more than two tons of refrigerated Malbec grapes that had been air-freighted from Mendoza, Argentina, hoping to produce an English take on the fabled Latin American wine.
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