Wine Law

12 wines), and the sparkling wines can be further divided by their sugar content. The next exhaustive list concern the authorised technological methods of processing grapes intended for use in the production of wine products 49 . Follow the requirement for applying only the envisaged by the legislation technological rules for wine production. In details are fixed the approved general technological methods and operations of processing grape must, wine, fortified wine and sparkling wine at any stage of the production process. Special provisions concern the approved technological methods and operations of processing grape must. Stated as well are the approved technological methods and operations for the production of wine, fortified wine and sparkling wine, while other technological methods for their production are explicitly prohibited. Of significant importance is the enumeration of the raw materials and supplies approved for use in the production of wine, fortified wine and sparkling wine. In order not to mislead the consumer special requirements are established for the labeling and the retail sale of the wine products. All grape-containing alcoholic beverages with ethyl alcohol by volume not exceeding 22 percent or the alcoholic beverages which otherwise do not respect the complex of legal and technical conditions for being certified as wine, must bear the self- explaining inscription “This is not wine”. Such beverages must be displayed for retail in the sales areas separately from wine, fortified wine, and sparkling wine in a way that allows the visual separation of these products, and must be accompanied by the inscription "This product is not wine”. Sparkling wine made in Russia from grapes grown in Russia by secondary fermentation of cuvée in vessels that serve as package containers at their retail sale may use the name “Russian champagne” on the label of such products. 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 that were used during wine aging without the removal of the resulting lees and with indication of the wine collection they arrive from for sale. Chapter 3 concludes with provisions concerning the rating of the wine products as a means of publicly available comparison of 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 49 According to the definition of Art. 3, point 23 the winemaking is in principal the production of wine products.