Wine Law

4 and socially sensitive approach to agriculture focused not only on production, but also on the ecological sustainability of the production system 6 . In the field of wine, the French authorities of the wine sector (Ministry of Agriculture, the National Institute of Origin and Quality of France-INAO and the French Fraud Control Office) have recognized “natural wine” as a new denomination 7 . These wines will be marketed under the denomination of "vin méthode nature" and their production will be supervised by the Union of Natural Wines of France. For a "natural method wine" it is necessary to have a certified organic vineyard, harvest manually, induce fermentation from native yeasts and not add sulfites before or during this process, or pasteurize. The new legislation allows the use of two logos: without added sulphites and with less than 30 mg of sulphates added per litre of wine. They also try to position themselves the so-called “vegan wines”, based on an organic grape, but with a production process that requires that products of animal origin are not used in winemaking; only products of plant origin can be used. The Second World War slowed the development of organic farming in Europe, especially in countries like Germany and Sweden, where further development had been achieved. Starting in the sixties, the number of organic producers in Europe began to increase and by 1972 the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) 8 was created, an organization created to support and disseminate organic farming; currently, 127 countries are present. In 2003, FAO 9 together with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and IFOAM created the International Task Force on Harmonization and Equivalence in Organic Agriculture (IAG ). 6 Vid: Altieri, M. A. (1987). Agroecology: the scientific basis of alternative agriculture . Westvierw Press, Boulder; Sevilla Guzmán, E. (2013) Agroecología: fundamentos del pensamiento social agrario y teoría sociológica . Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Murcia. 7 Michele Lagalla, M. (2020) Francia otorga reconocimiento al vino natural . https://www.cocinayvino.com/vinos-bebidas/vino/francia-vino-natural/ ( accessed on 12 August 2020). 8 Source : https://www.ifoam.bio/ ( accessed on 12 August 2020). 9 The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) was created in 1945 with the mandate to raise nutritional and living standards, improve agricultural productivity, and improve the situation of rural populations.