EC UNHAPPILY APPROVES FURTHER SPAIN CRISIS DISTILLATION
October 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel has highlighted yet another decision to distil quality European wine as evidence of the need to reform the EU's antiquated wine market system. Brussels has ordered that up to 185,000 hl of quality Spanish wine should go into subsidised crisis distillation, at a fixed price of Euro 3 per percentage alcohol content per hl of distilled wine. She said: "Once more we have had to eliminate excess stocks of quality wine by distillation. This is exactly why it is necessary to proceed ...
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