- The free trade agreement between the EU and New Zealand has been ratified, which ensures protection for Italian national spirits.
A market that is also becoming promising for Grappa and Italian Brandy, on which producers will be able to focus by focusing on the exclusive use of the denomination.
Assodistil makes this known, specifying that the new free trade agreement, which will come into force next May 1st, includes full protection of spirit drinks with geographical indications including Italian Brandy, Grappa and all Ig territorial Grappas, Geographical Indications .
"We are particularly proud of this result", comments Cesare Mazzetti, president of the AssoDistil Spirits and Liqueurs Committee, who collaborated closely with the institutions to achieve it, "as our intervention prevented the Grappa denomination from being used without time limits for a spirit produced in New Zealand, as initially foreseen in the draft agreement".
In fact, unlike other products with a protected denomination, such as Parmigiano Reggiano, for which the principle of 'grandfathering' was applied whereby these denominations can be used without time limits by those who already used them, for Grappa it was obtained a phasing out period of 5 years, during which those who have continuously used this name will have to gradually abandon it, to the benefit of Italian producers.
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