Wine Law

30 112 and 119(3)(a) of Regulation No 1308/2009, used by Italy to designate PDO wine products. On the one hand, the terms Kontrollierte Ursprungsbezeichnung and Kontrollierte und garantierte Ursprungsbezeichnung may be used in Italy to designate, respectively, a DOC and a DOCG wine made in the district of Bolzano, where there is Italian and German bilingualism, and the terms Appellation d’origine contrôlée and Appellation d’origine contrôlée et garantie may be used in wines from the Aosta Valley to designate, respectively, DOC and DOCG wines, due to the region’s Italian and French bilingualism. On the other hand, the terms kontrolirano poreklo and kontrolirano in garantirano poreklo may be used in Italy to designate, respectively, a DOC and a DOCG wine made in the districts of Trieste, Gorizia and Udine, following the Act No. 38 of 23 February 2001, aimed at protecting Slovenian minority in the region Friuli-Venezia Giulia 55 . Under exceptional and duly justified circumstances determined by the Commission with Regulation No 607/2009 and subsequently with Regulation No 33/2019, article 23, in accordance with Article 119(3) of Regulation No 1308/2013, references to the terms protected designation of origin may be omitted in Italy for wines bearing the PDOs Asti, Marsala and Franciacorta 56 . However, as we see from these labels, references to the PDO are, however, not forbidden. 55 A useful survey on PDO and PGI and their product specifications in A. Rossi, Codice delle Denominazioni di Origine dei Vini , UIV, 2018, while a comprehensive collection of the legislation on wine is to be found in A. Rossi, Codice della Vite e del Vino , UIV, 2018; regarding the product specifications, see A. Germanò, E. Rook Basile, N. Lucifero, Manuale di legislazione vitivinicola , cit . 56 As already mentioned, the same happens in Greece, Spain, France, Cyprus and Portugal (see point 2.4.).