ARGENTINA DEAL
October 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALL
ARGENTINA has an extra year to strike a comprehensive wine-making standards deal with the European Union (EU) or face a possible block on exports of vintages containing malic acid, banned in the EU. The European Commission wants a mutual recognition agreement of oenological practices permanently allowing Argentine wine makers to sell malic acid wines in Europe, however. So it has asked EU ministers to extend their provisional authorisation to use the additive to September 2005.
ARGENTINA has an extra year to strike a comprehensive wine-making standards deal with the European Union (EU) or face a possible block on exports of vintages containing malic acid, banned in the EU. The European Commission wants a mutual recognition agreement of oenological practices permanently allowing Argentine wine makers to sell malic acid wines in Europe, however. So it has asked EU ministers to extend their provisional authorisation to use the additive to September 2005.
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