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Australia Adopts EU's Geographical Indicator System For Wine

Posted by timothy on from the all-official-like dept.

onreserve writes with an excerpt from a site dedicated to laws affecting wine: "[L]ast week, Australia signed an agreement with the European Union to comply with the geographical indicator (GI) system of the EU. The new agreement replaces an agreement signed in 1994 between the two wine powers and protects eleven of the EU drink labels and 112 of the Australian GI's. Specifically, this means that many of the wine products produced in Australia that were previously labeled according to European names, such as sherry and tokay, will no longer be labeled under these names. Wine producers in Australia will have three years to 'phase out' the use of such names on labels. Australian labels that will be discontinued include amontillado, Auslese, burgundy, chablis, champagne, claret, marsala, moselle, port, and sherry."

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  1. Geolocation is bad. by asnelt · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am against geolocation of wine. I think that GNU/Linux users should be able to keep their privacy. Why do I have the feeling that I am off-topic here...

  2. kepsev by photonic · · Score: 3, Funny

    While they're at it, could those EU guys please teach the Ozzies how to properly pronounce the different types of grapes. While I was down there, it took me a while to understand that kepsev (pronounced with nasal Texan accent) means Cabernet Sauvignon ...

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    1. Re:kepsev by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      hahah, welcometo'straya, ya dickhead!

      ffs, honestly. We're a country founded on (probably your) criminals, and we have a habit of making words our own. It's a crim thing. Try it one day. It's no big deal really. We're not changing for you faeries up North, except maybe if we wanna make some money out of ya'.

      Having said that, time to pass the grammar buck and have a whinge of me own; Can you please tell citizens of the USA English by default is not from the US, it from England. Funny that. When I download software with English, I expect it to default to use words like 'centre', 'colour', 'armour', 'aluminium' et al. Fix it arsehats, or I'll find another Slashdot article to bemoan my muelings until my beer runs out and then I'll whine about that, to. Hell, even my browser and linux install are set to UK English and are still telling me I just misspeeled all that.

      And soccer is a valid word. English made it same time as football. Probably because they, like us, have other kinds of footy. So shut up Euro-trash.

      P.S. I bet you're a Pom. And yeah me grammar sucks wewt!

    2. Re:kepsev by photonic · · Score: 5, Funny

      P.S. I bet you're a Pom.

      Wrong guess. It was my ancestors that first spotted and mapped Australia, but saw that it was such a godforsaken place that they happily left it for the Brits.

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    3. Re:kepsev by TapeCutter · · Score: 4, Funny

      kepsev? - It's "cabsav". /Bloody tourists.

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    4. Re:kepsev by hairyfeet · · Score: 4, Funny

      You can have those things when your country gets together as a whole and apologizes to the USA for Yahoo Serious and Paul Hogan! I mean, we save your asses from the Japs in WWII, you give us one of the most iconic car movies of all time with "Mad Max" so we think you're friends and then for NO REASON WHATSOEVER you release that nightmare plague of unfunny upon us. What did we ever do to you? Hell it was bad enough when you gave us Olivia Newton-John, but we were willing to let that slide because she was cute, but Young Einstein? Or Crocodile Dundee II? That should have been declared an act of war!

      So you Aussies get together and say you're sorry, and go back to Imperial Units like God and the Queen intended, and then we'll talk. Its bad enough we have to deal with those pasty Brits getting infected by the metric system by cheese eating surrender monkeys,but at least they try to make up for that by giving us shows like AbFab and The Vicar of Dibly. But releasing Yahoo Serious and Paul Hogan from whatever hellhole you kept them in upon us poor unsuspecting Americans? That was....that was just wrong, and you KNOW it!

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  3. Re:Dont't like the idea anyway... by grantek · · Score: 4, Funny

    In reality you could just label everything "Plonk", have the grapes/location/year(s) in small text for those interested, and people would still buy it.

  4. Re:Dont't like the idea anyway... by maxwell+demon · · Score: 5, Funny

    In reality you could just label everything "Plonk", have the grapes/location/year(s) in small text for those interested, and people would still buy it.

    No, people who know Usenet would avoid it because they'd think it's so bad it got put into a killfile.

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  5. Re:Australian Tokay makes me sad by Hognoxious · · Score: 3, Funny

    I remember that even Alsacian french wine producers can not use the name "tokay" anymore because of Appellation d'origine contrôlée.

    I'm sure they can, because EU laws don't apply to the French.

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