Italian wine and french merchants united against the enemies of rose'

A few days after the protest of the French wine growers, even in Italy the controversy breaks out on the decision of the European Commission to liberalize the wine market, allowing the sale of rose' wine, made historically not from a simple mixture of white and red wines. The protest of rose' go ahead and the battle now beyond the borders of France and involves also Italian wine merchants, who are worried that a traditional product such as rose' "could be at risk" from the assembly of white and red grapes as the news directives of the OCM (Common Market Organization) of wine say. A mixture of grapes, for the French and Italians, that destroys years of care and wine tradition.
The draft reform has been the result of a first vote of the 27 representatives of the Union (27 January 2009). A final vote must be held April 27 after the arrival of an opinion given by the World Trade Organization (WTO). According to Les Echos french newspaper, was the first to announce the alarm in France, the Commission's objective is to liberate the "barriers wine" of the EU to open new markets, including China.The mix of red and white (very white and a little red) for the production of rose' is already practiced, in particular in South Africa and Australia, but has always been criticized from italian and european wine merchants. "The wine made with mix of white and red grapes it's not rose' " says François Millo director of (Civp - Interprofessional Wine Council of Provence France ).
According to Antonio Romano, italian wine merchants that produces 500 thousand bottles a year, "is a very big mistake that is making the European Union, a hypothesis to be fought at all. The quality of rose' will decrease". It would penalized a made in Italy product that over the past five years, has seen increased international sales, especially in the United Kingdom and in the Scandinavian countries. And that, to hear the operators, a trend in sales growth.