FOREIGN QUALITY WINE TERMS ALLOWABLE ONLY IF THEY DO NOT MISLEAD, SAY EU JUDGES
April 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE USE of officially approved quality wine descriptors from foreign European Union (EU) member states by EU wine producers should be only allowed if there "is no risk that it will mislead" consumers about its origin or other issues, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled. The same condition applies where a wine producer seeks to translate locally approved quality wine terms into a foreign language. The guidance - which is an EU-wide legal precedent - has come in a case involving a German wine producer Heinrich Stefan Schneider, ...
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