US EditionRepression of Fraud: What Controls for Wines?
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Almost 30% of wine and spirits producers have unfair oenological practices, according to an investigation by the Directorate-General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Prevention (DGCCRF) revealed this Wednesday, July 9 by France Inter. A surveillance that aims not to identify culprits but to change practices.
We learn that 30 to 40% of producers and distributors have anomalies. What are they? Here are some of them: for example, they falsify the degree of alcohol in their wine, others add unauthorized ingredients such as water or dyes, or they lie about the origin or designation of the bottle. Inadequacies that cannot be identified for customers. (Company topics).
This Wednesday, the DGCCRF announced the results of its survey of wine and spirits professionals. "Failures" include the addition of unauthorized ingredients, such as water or dyes, or "consumer blind substitution" of one wine by another.
This follows from the study "Economic and social renewal of the wine sector in Spain", prepared by the financial consultant AFI and that has presented the Interprofessional of wine (OIVE).The director of the OIVE, Susana García Dolla, has emphasized that the wine "is implanted in 17 autonomous communities and is an engine of rural development and opportunity for those environments, where there is not much alternative from the point of view of em…
34,000 hectolitres of Spanish wine made up in Médoc. Prohibited dyes. And wine cards that promise bottles that no one serves. A wave of controls throughout the wine sector The Directorate-General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Prevention (DGCCRF) screened 7,800 establishments between 2022 and 2023. Objective: to inspect the whole wine sector, from production to distribution, on compliance with health, commercial and labelling rules.…
Let's be honest, which sommelier never feared, when he tasted wine, to miss a defect? And if this hint of cork or this dubious note were to ruin the customer's moment? So many questions that are now (almost) more common. Explanation. Twenty years ago, this scenario was unfortunately common: it was then estimated that 7% of the bottles were victims of a defect related to the cork. A real thorn in the foot of the wine professionals. It is to this …
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