The proposed introduction of a new all-embracing, multi-regional, Vin de Pays Vignobles de France as reported here earlier this year, is not going unopposed. (There’s a surprise. French wine producers seem to have developed a taste for legal stroppiness – as witness the recent suspension of both the 2006 St-Emilion classification and the 2003 cru bourgeois reclassification because of objections in the courtroom.)
A legal challenge is to be made in the next few days by two French producer associations, the Fédération Régionale des Vignerons Indépendants du Languedoc-Roussillon and the Syndicat des Vignerons de l’Hérault, and a recently formed...