#52026XC03089EU Publishes Standard Amendment for Spain’s ‘3 Riberas’ PGI Wine Specification
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This notice updates the product rules for wines sold under Spain’s ‘3 Riberas’ protected geographical indication. Producers may now make partially de-alcoholised wines, naturally low-alcohol wines, and sweeten wines with rectified concentrated grape must. It also changes rosé production rules. Rosé no longer has to be made only from red grapes, but authorised red varieties must still make up at least 85% of the grapes used. The practical effect is more flexibility for 3 Riberas wine producers while keeping the PGI link and core production identity intact.
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Key Changes
- Allows partially de-alcoholised wines under the ‘3 Riberas’ PGI specification
- Allows naturally low-alcohol wines without using a de-alcoholisation process
- Permits sweetening with rectified concentrated grape must and changes rosé grape composition rules
Obligations
What this law requires
Producers marketing rosé wine under the ‘3 Riberas’ PGI must ensure authorised red grape varieties make up at least 85% of the grapes used.
Producers may market partially de-alcoholised wines under the ‘3 Riberas’ PGI only where the wines are produced using the permitted winemaking practices included in the amended product specification.
Producers making naturally low-alcohol wines under the ‘3 Riberas’ PGI must do so without using a de-alcoholising process, as covered by the amended specification for wines of naturally low alcoholic strength.
Producers sweetening wines under the ‘3 Riberas’ PGI may use rectified concentrated grape must only as allowed by the amended product specification.