Wine Law

34 originate in that smaller geographical unit 61 , and the remaining grapes used in the production shall originate in the geographical demarcated area of the DO or GI concerned. Following article 44 of Act No. 238, as of their registration in the European Commission’s PDO and PGI register, DOs and GIs, traditional terms, larger geographical units, subareas and smaller geographical units and other indications reserved for the respective PDOs and PGIs cannot be used except in compliance with the provisions of the relevant product specifications, of EU law and the Decree itself. The name of a geographical unit smaller or larger than the area underlying the designation of origin or geographical indication or a geographical area references shall refer to: a) a locality or group of localities; b) a local administrative area or part thereof; c) a winegrowing sub-region or part thereof; or d) an administrative area. It is worth mentioning that the optional terms, excluding trademarks and company names, can be shown on the label only in characters no larger or evident than those used for the denomination of controlled origin, without prejudice to the more restrictive general rules. This, under article 29 of the same Act, only PDOs can have expressly delimited areas, commonly called subareas (in Italian, “ sottozone ”), which must have environmental or traditionally known peculiarities, be designated with a specific geographical, historical- geographical or administrative name, be expressly provided for in the product specification and be regulated more rigidly. An Italian PDOmay quite often include, within the designated area, a number of subzones, which are part of the PDO, where the French system normally has different PDOs within the so-called “ region vinicole ” (see point 2.7.). As an example, pursuant to article 1 of the “Chianti” product specification 62 the DOCG Chianti is reserved for Chianti wines, which were already recognised as a DOC wine by Presidential Decree of 9 August 1967, meeting the conditions and requirements established by the product specification for the following types: Chianti and Chianti Superiore, as well as the following subzones: Chianti Colli Aretini, Chianti Colli Fiorentini, 61 This does not include (i) any quantity of grapevine products used in sweetening, “ expedition liqueur ” or “ tirage liqueur ”, nor (ii) any quantity of grapevine product referred to in points (3)(e) and (f) of Part II of Annex VII to Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013. 62 Lastly modified by the Decree of the Ministry of Agriculture of 30 November 2011.