Blog-IT-o ergo sum

	5/13/2006

France - R.I.P.

(don't let this happen to your country)

There is nothing more dead serious than wine in France so there can be no doubt how much authority the former nation has transfered to the EU:

One New World practice, long scorned by the French, of putting of wood chips into wine to provoke an oaky flavour, rather than storing the wine in wooden barrels, will be made legal "any day now", said Georges Pierre Malpel, of the agriculture ministry.

This will apply to wines outside the rigid Appellation dOrigine Controlee (AOC) system of quality control.

But the 40-page report released in March also includes suggestions that the AOC system, controlled by Institut National des Appellations d'Origine (INAO), will need to implement to soften its demands on winemakers.

Wood chip suppliers are already stocked up, ready for the day the documents are signed, FIRST by the European Union and THEN by the French government. (emphasis added.)

10:04:25 PM

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