‘Please can you tell me what MILK is doing in my bottle of Co-Op Lime Tree Merlot?!’ This plea, from a visitor to the site, reminded me of the changes required by revised EU labelling...

From August 2009, wines previously labelled AOC or DO (etc) could be labelled PDO and those previously labelled VdP or IGT (etc) could be labelled PGI. The recent EU reform...

France’s new five - year plan to beef up its wine exports incorporates some very specific ambitions. The average amount of French wine exported each year in the 1990s was 13.6 million hl (a...

You may remember that Europe’s Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel promised to really get to grips with reforming Europe's wine headaches about a year ago (see...

As Europe’s wine surplus shows no signs of abating, the EU agreed measures yesterday for ‘crisis distillation’ of up to 1.5 million hl of AC wine (that’s equivalent to a...

Next month the EU is expected to announce a dramatically revised package of measures designed to achieve profound reform of the troubled wine sector which is currently on track to produce a 15...

Just before Christmas, on 21 dec, the EU voted through a total of six winemaking practices until now associated much more readily with the New than the Old World. - the use of oak alternatives...