Australia Adopts EU's Geographical Indicator System For Wine 302
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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."
Geolocation is bad. (Score:5, Funny)
Dont't like the idea anyway... (Score:3, Funny)
Anyway back to my beer...
kepsev (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Dont't like the idea anyway... (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.
Re:kepsev (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!
Re:Australian Tokay makes me sad (Score:2, Funny)
It is Liqueur Tokay.
Wine trees were imported to Australia. I am not wine expert, but if they use same sort of wines, mix of grapes used in Tokaji and wine fermentation process is not patented, patent is not expired and name is not trademarked, then Aussies are free to call their wine whatever they want. They do indicate that wine is made by Morris of Rutherglen.
http://www.morriswines.com/tastingNotes/Morris%20Old%20Premium%20Liqueur%20Tokay.pdf [morriswines.com]
This geolocation restriction only makes wine look like exquisite beverage and allows old wine producers to overcharge for their products without actually registering and protecting their trademark.
Re:kepsev (Score:2, Funny)
Please, learn to spell Aussie before telling us how we should pronounce things. Oh, and if anyone was pronouncing 'Cab Sav' as 'kepsev' it's most likely you were in South Africa, rather than Australia.
We make some of the worlds best red wines, we are quite comfortable with our pronunciation.
I'm Australian of French origin and have seen both spellings frequently. Also props on Sham pain and his cousin sham pagnee, that was a true example of butchering at its finest.
Re:kepsev (Score:5, Funny)
P.S. I bet you're a Pom.
Wrong guess. It was my ancestors that first spotted [wikipedia.org] and mapped [wikipedia.org] Australia, but saw that it was such a godforsaken place that they happily left it for the Brits.
Re:kepsev (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Dont't like the idea anyway... (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.
Re:Dont't like the idea anyway... (Score:2, Funny)
Nah, Visual Basic is more like straight grain alcohol. It can really mess a computer up.
Re:So long as I can still get goon for $10/5L... (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah. It's beer with food and vodka otherwise. Why would anyone want to gulp down rotten fruit juice?
Re:kepsev (Score:1, Funny)
Britons know that US exists. Americans don't know that there is something else but oil outside of US border. Lets not confuse them.
Re:kepsev (Score:5, 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!
Re:Australian Tokay makes me sad (Score:3, Funny)
The following words are mentioned in the USA national anthem, written in 1815, Please do not use them anywhere else:
a, air, and, as, at, band, banner, battle, be, beam, between, blest, blood, blows, bombs, brave, breeze, bright, broad, bursting, by, can, catches, cause, conceals, confusion, conquer, could, country, dawn, deep, desolation, dimly, discloses, does, doth, draped, dread, early, ever, fight, first, fitfully, flag, flight, foe, footsteps, foul, free, freemen, from, full, gallantly, gave, glare, gleam, gleaming, gloom, glory, god, grave, hailed, half, has, hath, haughty, havoc, heaven, hireling, home, host, in, is, it, just, land, last, leave, light, long, loved, made, may, mists, more, morning, motto, must, nation, night, no, now, o, of, oh, on, or, our, out, over, peace, pentagon, perilous, pollution, power, praise, preserved, proof, proudly, ramparts, red, reflected, refuge, reposes, rescued, rockets, roof, save, say, see, seen, shall, shines, shore, should, silence, slave, so, spangled, stand, star, stars, steep, still, stream, streaming, stripes, swore, terror, that, the, their, then, there, this, through, thru, thus, tis, towering, triumph, trust, twilight, us, vauntingly, victory, war, was, washed, watched, wave, we, were, what, when, where, which, who, whose, with, yet, you
Re:Australian Tokay makes me sad (Score:4, Funny)
I'm sure they can, because EU laws don't apply to the French.
Beer drinkers are worried about this... (Score:3, Funny)