Winemakers in Spain insist on defending vinegar as a wine product

Published 2022년 2월 15일

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The Association of European Wine Industries (AIVE) is advocating for vinegar to be recognized as a wine product and is challenging the Ministry of Health for not responding to their request to establish new vinegar regulations. AIVE's president, Lorenzo Delgado, is questioning the use of the term "vinegar" for products not derived from wine fermentation and is calling for clearer labeling practices to prevent consumer deception. The organization is also pushing for the permissible use of chaptalization, which they argue is a more beneficial practice than using other sugary substances.

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The Association of European Wine Industries (AIVE) has again mobilized around one of the demands that it has called for the most in its history, such as vinegar being officially defined "as a wine product", derived from wine fermentation, and that Expand your portfolio of uses. This is a claim that is the focus of the appeal filed by the association against the Ministry of Health for administrative silence, after the latter's lack of response to the claim filed last August for the ministerial department to promote a new definition and vinegar regulation. Apparently, according to the president of AIVE, Lorenzo Delgado, “to date there has been no pronouncement or resolution” from Health. The development of the petition would entail, according to this spokesman, the modification of the royal decrees of 661/2012 of April 13, and 1334/1999, of July 31, and the reestablishment of some points of the Law of the Vineyard Statute , Wine and Spirits, extremes not addressed by the ...

Source: Lanza Digital