Vignerons slam bid for cheap ‘made in Bourgogne’ wine Anger over surge in application for non-appellation vine plantations
A new season begins for prized pré-salé lamb Have you ever eaten lamb des prés-salés de la Baie de la Somme? In season from July, it is one of only two kinds of French lamb to have an Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée from the EU (the other is Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy).
Wine-maker beats bureaucrats A vigneron has won back the right to label his natural wines AOC (Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée) Pouilly-Fumé and has hit at label inspectors for targeting him in a bid to get him to make a ‘standard’ wine.