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"Madam President, Commissioner, we have chocolate without cocoa and a ban on cheese made with milk straight from the cow. Our Roquefort was subject to 300% customs duties and we nearly had chickens washed in bleach and even a lactation hormone, somatotropin.
Now we are considering the idea of colouring white wine with red wine to make rosé wine. If you will permit me, as we say in France, this has been the drop of water that has made the vase overflow, with this water having also been authorised for blending wine, just like the ‘woodwork’ wines made with wood chips rather than in barrels were previously authorised, and the wines made with imported musts were nearly authorised. Wine could even be made in Thailand.
The problem is the psychoanalytic reaction that this idea produces, as this is an attack on culture. What is the definition of wine? If it is an industrial product, then it can be blended, like a wine Coca-Cola. However, if it is an agricultural food product, then you cannot touch it, otherwise you cause a cultural shock. ‘This is my blood; drink it in remembrance of me’. If you blend blood, then you make contaminated blood.
Can you understand this disproportionate reaction? With this rosé idea, you have questioned 2 500 years of heritage dating from the Roman empire, which had to tackle the barbarians. Madam President, this is what I wanted to say: ‘It is a Freudian matter, not a wine-growing matter’."@en1
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