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Article: AUSTRALIAN TAWNY PORT/VINTAGE WINE TO BE SOLD IN EUROPEAN SHOPS.
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- February 26, 2004
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CANBERRA, Feb 26 Asia Pulse - Australian tawny port and vintage wine will be sold in European wine shops with their labels intact under new European Commission regulations.
After years of argument over the use of traditional wine terms, the commission has agreed to allow certain descriptions used by worldwide wine producers to remain unaltered.
It follows complaints that the EU was using the geographical indicators of wine as a defacto trade barrier.
Already wine exporters such as Australia have been barred from using terms such as Champagne and Beaujolais.
Now, the commission will allow the use of more general terms on imported wines ...