ACTUALITES
PGI and PDO European Quality Schemes: How These Certifications Ensure the Excellence of Grenache Wines
Garnacha/Grenache wines are underrated European agricultural products recognized for traditional cultivation, quality, and prestige with their certification in two European Union quality schemes; “PGI,” or protected geographical indication, and “PDO,” protected designation of origin. [...]
Five reasons to love Grenache /Garnacha Blanc and Gris from Europe
By Deborah Parker Wong Geographic Indications (GI), Protected Designation of Origins (PDO) and Protected Geographical Indications (PGI) protect the name of a product, which is from a specific region and follow a particular traditional production process. Product [...]
European Quality Wines: Focus on Vins Doux Naturels
By Deborah Parker Wong EU quality policy aims at protecting the names of specific products to promote their unique characteristics, linked to their geographical origin as well as traditional know-how. Product names can be granted with [...]
Cheers to European Quality Schemes on Europe Day!
Happy Europe Day! Thanks to the European institutions, regulations and standards established, we can enjoy many European products that we´ve come to value. For example, did you know that the EU is responsible for certifying [...]
Celebrating European organic wines on Earth Day 2019!
Currently, there is no doubt why organic wines have been on the rise these past years: fewer chemicals, kinder to the environment and less powerful consequences. This fever is due in part to an increase [...]
European Quality Certification: PDO, PGI & TSG explained
PDO and PGI products represent excellence in European food production and are both the result of a unique combination of human and environmental factors characteristic of a certain geographical area. For this reason the European [...]
OPEN CALL FOR TENDERS – US
The European Union co-finances information and promotion programmes for agricultural products on the internal market and in third countries in accordance with Regulation (EU) 1144/2014 of the European Parliament and the Council. These rules [...]
