AUSTRALIA: Industry ponders terms for Port/Sherry
By Tony Baker | 15 July 2004
Australia's peak wine industry organisation has begun a round of consultations to drop the terms port and sherry from labels and find alternative terminology. The discussions anticipate agreement in government to government negotiations with the European Union which bars the use of such terms outside their geographic places of origin.
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Australia's peak wine industry organisation has begun a round of consultations to drop the terms port and sherry from labels and find alternative terminology. The discussions anticipate agreement in government to government negotiations with the European Union which bars the use of such terms outside their geographic places of origin.
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