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Article: South African winemakers angered by EU ban on label `port'
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 15, 2002
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SOUTH AFRICAN winemakers have been angered by new rules agreed
with the EU that prevent them from using the label "port" or
descriptions like "ruby" and "late vintage".
The trade deal, which has taken years to negotiate, is about to
come into law but has left many producers seething.
"It is hugely frustrating," said Deidre Labuschagne, the export
manager for the award-winning Cape wine estate Bergsig. After
spending large amounts of money and marketing on produce that had
just been renamed "ports", she was told that she could not use the
label by an importer in London last week, who said: "We're not
allowed to do it and that's final."
She argued that the rules "are just the latest attempt ...