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Technological University Dublin

Appellation Controlee

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The Role Of Revolution And Rioting In French Wine's Relationship With Place, Brian Murphy Jan 2011

The Role Of Revolution And Rioting In French Wine's Relationship With Place, Brian Murphy

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French Wine: The role of revolution and rioting in establishing it’s relationship with “place”

Many of the rules and regulations surrounding the production of French wines have been heavily debated and criticised over the years. They have been accused of limiting French wine’s ability to compete with new world marketing successes. Appellation d’Origine Controlee represents France’s much imitated system of controlling both geographically based names and indeed production variables associated with these AOCs in terms of “place”.

Prior to the development of the Appellation d’origine controlee laws in 1937, France bore witness to two key wine related violent episodes in …