‘One has to admire the combined forces of the world’s wine trade for having managed to escape the exacting demands of ingredient labelling for so long’, wrote Jancis in 2021, and we have long championed the cause of ingredient labelling on this site: click on the ‘ingredient labelling’ tag on the left and see especially the remarkably prescient The case for total disclosure...
What's in your wine?
Wednesday 20 November 2024
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The newest EU regulations on ingredient and nutrition labelling provide quick access to a wealth of important and useful information. Will those outside Europe follow? Above, Riesling from Keller’s Shubertslay in the Mosel, 2024 harvest.
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