The Common Agricultural Policy (Wine) (England and Northern Ireland) Regulations 2001

Definition of medium dryE+W+N.I.

4.  For the purposes of Article 14(7)(b) of Commission Regulation (EEC) No. 3201/90, as amended, laying down detailed rules for the description and presentation of wines and grape musts M1, wine may be labelled and described as “medium dry” if it has a residual sugar content not exceeding 18 grams per litre where the total acidity content of that wine expressed as grams of tartaric acid per litre is not more than 10 grams per litre below its residual sugar content.

Marginal Citations

M1OJ No. L309, 8.11.90, p. 1, as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2770/98 (OJ No. L346, 22.12.98, p. 25); the amendments are not relevant to Article 14(7)(b) of the Regulation.