Wine Law

496 WINE LAW Under article 27, the creation of wine collections is envisaged with samples of wine products of different harvest years put together by research institutions or wineries for scientific, production or commercial purposes. The wines of such collections could be sold in the same bottles used during wine aging without removing the resulting lees and indication of the wine collection they arrive from for sale. Article 28 concludes Chapter 3 with provisions concerning the wine products’ rating to publicly compare wine products of different producers based on a system of evaluation of their consumer properties and quality. The Russian national rating of given wine types includes an assessment of wines originating from at least three-quarters of the total amount of wine producers of this wine type located in Russia. The regional rating is elaborated with the same criterion of at least three-quarters of the total amount of wine producers of the relevant wine type located in the grape growing and winemaking zone, rayon or terroir . “The Russian wine guide” of Roskachestvo, mentioned above, is an authoritative example of national rating initiative materialised jointly with the Russian Ministry of industry and trade and the Ministry of agriculture 51 . Chapter 4 is dedicated to the Russian national system for the protection of wines by geographical indication and appellation of origin (artt. 29-32). The land suitable for grape growing in Russia is divided into grape growing and winemaking zones that consist of rayons, which, in turn, may include one or more grape growing and winemaking terroirs . The territorial division of the lands suitable for grape growing and the relevant territorial names must be approved and could be modified by the Russian Government. The wines of protected designations are the ones with Protected Geographical Indication and wines with Protected Appellation of Origin. Russian wines of protected designations must be made following the established technological rules. In the production of wines and fortified wines with protected geographical indication, it is prohibited to carry out technological operations of secondary winemaking, which allow the possibility of blending wines and fortified wines made from grapes originating from different grape growing and winemaking zones. Moreover, the information about the content of the grape varieties’ approved list, the technological methods and operations of viticulture and winemaking and the processing aids used in the production of Russian wines of protected designation is publicly available. For instance, the producers of wines of protected designation have the right to put the respective geographic indications on labels and counter-labels of wine products or in the names of wines. In the sales places, the inscription “Wine of 51 Source : https://new- retail.ru/novosti/retail/eksperty_predstavili_top_luchshikh_krasnykh_i_belykh_vin_rossii4889/.