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"Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, wine has been produced in my country for three thousand years. I express my opposition, my regret and my concern about what we are going to do. Rosé wine is an artificial product. Wine is a fermented product, not a mixed product. If this is applied, the result will be unfair competition for our producers who produce these wonderful wines.
Secondly and importantly, the reputation of European wine will be damaged yet again. However, I can see that, if we take this slippery slope, there will be no end to it. Some time ago we debated and adopted the addition of bits of wood to wine. We cited as our grounds ageing and the economic cost. We also adopted the addition of sugar to wine. For reasons of economy, we said, and we did not have the courage to demand that these techniques be written on the label. Nor shall we have the courage to do so now.
Europe can only assert itself with the very high quality wines which it has. God help us if we believe that we can compete with cheap Australian or American wines – we must insist on this point. I said as much when we adopted the practice of adding sugar to wine. We, who take these decisions, shall go down in the history of European oenology as the people who undermined the foundations of excellent European wines. I therefore implore that we get off the slippery slope of these decisions."@en1
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