EU COUNCIL OF MINISTERS – SLOVAKIA SLOVENIA ROMANIA BULGARIA EU-CHILE DEAL
January 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has made permanently legal across the EU experimental wine-making practices that have been under trial. They include the treatment of must and fermenting wine with charcoal, employing L-ascorbic acid, adding dimethyldicarbonate (DMDC) and using yeast mannoproteins. Ministers have also told Slovene and Slovak wine producers to discard by-products from over-pressing of grapes or wine lees, rather than distilling them.
Meanwhile, the council has approved new duty free EU import quotas for wine from ...
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