French winemaking rules

[SteveTimko]

Is there a list in English some where that says, for instance, that vineyard owners are not allowed to irrigate their grapes if they want an AOC designation?

 

[drssouth]

originally posted by SteveTimko:
French winemaking rulesIs there a list in English some where that says, for instance, that vineyard owners are not allowed to irrigate their grapes if they want an AOC designation?

?...NON

?...NON NON NON

Why not? NON NON NON

 

[John DeFiore]

They have rules for making wine in France?

 

[Rahsaan]

Don't regulations vary across the AOCs?

That said, I believe none of them allow irrigation. (Or is there a trivia exception out there?)

 

[SteveTimko]

They do vary.
Google doesn't halp me find them in English. Does anyone know if they've been put in English at any place?

 

[VS]

See decree 2006-1527 of Dec. 5, 2006 (http://www.agrisalon.com/06-actu/article-17838.php) specifying that under strict supervision, AOC vineyards may henceforth be drip-irrigated if the fruit load on the vines does not exceed the allowed maximum in that AOC, and only between June 15 and August 15.

And here, Jancis Robinsons comments on the new regulations: http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/20070411.html.

 

[Chris Weber]

Sure there is:

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www.inao.gouv.fr

Well, except for the part about it being in English.

They're about as likely to put it in English as the US is to put their rules in French.

 

[SteveTimko]

Okay, what about what yeasts are permitted?

 

[VS]

This is regulated by the European Union, not each individual country. You may use either ambient or selected (commercial) yeasts, the latter after acceptance by each country's health and agricultural authorities. No genetically modified yeasts are allowed in the EU.

 

[SteveTimko]

Thanks. Where can I find rules about what yeasts France allows in different AOCs?

 

[Rahsaan]

You could call the INAO (or search their website - they seem to have a lot of information - some even in English - on there).

But out of curiosity, why do you need to know this?

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

Knowledge is power.

 

[Jonathan Loesberg]

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
Knowledge is power.

This was surely said by some naive monkish librarian just prior to being imprisoned for life by some illiterate medieval kinglet. Alas, power is power. Knowledge is small consolation.

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
Knowledge is power.

This was surely said by some naive monkish librarian just prior to being imprisoned for life by some illiterate medieval kinglet. Alas, power is power. Knowledge is small consolation.

If anyone can be trusted to have first hand experience, it's you.

 

[Matteo Mollo]

I read this more as: "French winemaking RULES!"

 

[Jonathan Loesberg]

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
Knowledge is power.

This was surely said by some naive monkish librarian just prior to being imprisoned for life by some illiterate medieval kinglet. Alas, power is power. Knowledge is small consolation.

If anyone can be trusted to have first hand experience, it's you.

I am a card carrying member of what Bourdieu calls the dominated dominant. Of course, so are most of the posters to this board I expect. The truly dominated don't have the disposable income or the disposable time to post here. Those of the truly dominant who care about wine enough to drink it for dinner know enough to remember to say either O'Brien or Your Feet and get what they want. That leaves the rest of us.

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

Perhaps another way of saying dominated dominant is powerless powerful. Powerful (to some extent) because informed, but at the same time powerless because backed by insufficient capital.