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"Under the pretext of revising authorised oenological practices, the European Commission may be about to authorise the blending of red and white wine under the designation of ‘rosé wine’.
I question calling a blend of different wines ‘rosé wine’. It is not just the colour of the wine which should give it its name: it is the variety of grape, the soil and the wine growers’ expertise which create a wine, not the final colour of this or that liquid.
In order to produce a blended rosé, the base – more than 95% – must be a white wine, which is tinted with red wine. The fact is, rosé wine is produced from the fermentation of predominantly red grapes or must. Therefore, by authorising the blending of wines, the European Commission would be authorising the outand-out counterfeiting of rosé wine: it would amount to consumer deception.
Besides the insult to wine growers who are pursuing a policy of quality, in particular in Provence, it would be unacceptable to legitimise a by-product resulting from the mixing of finished products and to permit misleading references to the rosé colour.
If another solution is not found, these drinks’ labels should be required at least to reflect their true content: ‘blended wine’ or ‘mixture of wines’."@en1
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