Vino Dulce Natural (Argentina)

Traditional term for wine

From:
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Published
14 December 2023
Last updated
2 May 2024 — See all updates
Registered name:
Vino Dulce Natural
Register:
Traditional terms for wine
Status:
Applied for
Class or category of product:
Traditional Term
Protection type:
Traditional Term
Country of origin:
Argentina
Traditional term grapevine product category:
Wine, Sparkling wine
Traditional term type:
Description of product characteristic
Traditional term language:
Spanish
Date of application:
9 May 2022
Reason for protection:
Application to UK scheme from 2021

Summary

Natural Sweet Wine: It is the product obtained by the partial fermentation of fresh and ripe grapes or fresh grape must from Vitis Vinifera L., whose incomplete fermentation is the result of the use of physical processes by the time of its production, whose alcoholic content is not less than five percent alcohol by volume (5% ABV) and its sugar content, exclusively from fermentation residue, is not less than twenty grams per litre (20 g/l) of reducing sugars. This wine may be generic or varietal.

Natural Sweet Sparkling Wine: product whose carbon dioxide comes from the fermentation in a closed container, of fine grape must or fine grape must partially fermented and preserved by physical means; with a final pressure not less than four atmospheres (4 atm.) at a temperature of twenty degrees centigrade (20º C); with an alcoholic content of not less than seven percent alcohol by volume (7% ABV) and a minimum remaining natural sugar of sixty grams per litre (60 g/l). It cannot be added with tirage and/or expedition liqueur.

Application for protection of a traditional term - Vino Dulce Natural

Published 14 December 2023
Last updated 2 May 2024 + show all updates

  1. Publication of application

  2. First published.