LIBERALISERS WIN VODKA DEFINITION VOTE AT EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
June 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
LARGE drinks companies such as Diageo will be able to continue making vodka from non-traditional ingredients such as grapes, without having to label their products vodka-style drinks, following a European Parliament vote today (Tuesday 19/6). Furthermore, proposals from the parliament's environment committee that ingredients other than grain, potatoes or sugar beet molasses be listed on large labels, with lettering two-thirds as large as the word 'Vodka', were voted down. Under the winning formula for a proposed EU spirits labelling regulation, ...
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