Wine law

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Even in ancient Antike, attempts were made to prevent the wine quality from being abused and wine fraud through appropriate laws and regulations. There are written records from many authors in the relevant literature. The oldest wine law, with strict penalties for non-compliance, comes from the Babylonien ruler Hammurabi (1728-1686 BC), whose empire then encompassed almost all of Mesopotamia.

In the law of the Roman Republic, the sale (especially wholesale) of wine was regulated, and the individual laws defined what quality guarantee the buyer could expect and how the wine could be marketed. In the “Lex Salica” issued by the Merovingian king Chlodwig I (466-511), among other things, viticultural concerns were regulated, as wine growing was already widespread in the area of present-day Germany at that time. In the individual countries, quality criteria and quality levels were introduced as early as the early Middle Ages. Emperor Charlemagne (742-814) issued corresponding laws for this.

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