30th October, 2012 by Rupert Millar
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The Italian Ministry of Agriculture has amended its decree of July 1993 to allow some – but crucially not all – DOCG wines to be bottled under screwcap.
However, the amendment does not stretch to wines that include a sub-zone or the name of a vineyard on the label.
The change in the law comes after a lengthy debate that was started in October 2006 following the arrival of a letter from David Gleave MW, managing director of Liberty Wines, asking for a change in the law that only allowed cork to be used as a closure for DOCG wines.
The new decree was ratified on 13 August this year but in a statement Gleave said that it did not go far enough, calling it a “crass….
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