WINE CRISIS

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WINE CRISIS

New Zealand Herald
26 Jun 2006

One in six bottles of European wine is turned into fuel or industrial disinfectant because it cannot be sold. Emptying these so-called ‘‘wine lakes’’ costs the European Union about $1 billion every year. The EU is demanding that traditional winemaking countries such as France and Italy learn from New World producers like Australia and New Zealand. It particularly wants them to allow wines to be labelled by grape variety— eg chardonnay, pinot noir— rather than region so consumers know what they are buying.
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