EU rosé wine reforms delayed by WTO

Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer-Boel said the delay was strictly to allow the WTO longer consultation, and dismissed a suggestion by French agriculture minister Michel Barnier, who is opposed to the new rosé rules, that it allowed ‘time for dialogue’.

‘She told him in a phone call on Monday that she will not reopen the package on winemaking practices,’ Commission spokesman Johan Reyniers told decanter.com.