New wine designation (wine from France) for the lowest French wine quality level valid since August 2009 due to the EU wine market regulation. It replaces the former designation Vin de Table (table wine). There are wines without and with indication of the grape varieties and/or vintage. The competent authority for these wines is not the INAO, but the Anivin de France association. See also Quality System and France.
![]()
In the past, you needed a wealth of encyclopaedias and specialist literature to keep up to date in your vinophile professional life. Today, Wine lexicon from wein.plus is one of my best helpers and can rightly be called the "bible of wine knowledge".
Prof. Dr. Walter Kutscher
Lehrgangsleiter Sommelierausbildung WIFI-Wien