EU Thinks Mixing Red&White Wine Make Rosé

A draft EU plan would allow wine makers to blend red with a splash of white to create rosé. They say 'the method is holding back French, Spanish and Italian producers in new markets such as China.'

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When we our trying to stop cheap nasty stuff made poorly and high in alcohol the EU show they dont care what the industry, winemakers or us the market wants just so what they think we should want. Show me one wino who thinks this is a good idea. If China want to make rosé that why let them, just dont make the historic French application control to adopt this sudo wine making method.

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Wine Whining:They just dont get it!

Right you lot I know I said I stopped writing about politics but after waking up this morning; yes hung over, to the news of the Labour governments plans to tax alcohol on a unit based quasion, I felt I had to point out this silly, silly proposal faults. The government has stolen a Conservative idea to have higher taxers on the cheap nasty stuff, I have written about and like it I also like the SNP plans in Scotland. For some reason the government have decided to put a tax on all your tipples. They just don't get it, the government spoil perfectly good idea and have change it to make it into something stupid. The only reason I can think they would do this, because of revers snobbery in the scene if they are going to tax they are going to tax all as they might lose face if they did not tax wine drinkers. What I ask is if this new tax is going to be on whiskey? Like heck they would!

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The government just don't get it they are totally out of touch with normal people they are asking the equally out of touch advisers who see photo in news papers and make there judgment on it. Both the government and there advisers tell us they want to make us like the French. But why should we be like the French? I do fell at this time under years of this current government things have got out of control because of laws they bring in to make us 'more French'.
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The problem lies with the cost of drink being so high so people who are looking to save money drink at home with cheaper drink, then hit the town later and make the most of late licensing. Bring in the new tax would still make going out more expensive and the cheaper nasty stuff will still be the cheaper option. Unlike the out of touch government I don't sit on the high horse and say these young people going out getting drunk blur blur blur.... in fact last night before I went out I had a couple of G&Ts at home to save money on a good night out with my rugby mates.

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I know what the problem is as I live with it, work with it and I can see the government is clearly wrong and so keen to be seen to be taxing wine lovers as well as plastic artificial cider tasting drinkers. If you tax the high alcohol, high sugar drinks, the good drinks will end up not be cheaper but the same as the bad stuff. Alcohol is not the only problem. The reason people are so hyper is because of the drink is so high is sugar it make pepole loopy; I would love to see a study of the after effects of the sugar has on the drinker.There should be high taxation on drinks which don't fall into a application band and lower taxes (like with whiskey which is made in the PM and chancellors constituency) on good drink which has a proven application and is made in the idea of taste first.
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Sorry I will try to stop my rant but we can't let Labour do this to us! I am happy to let you know I am not that sad to sit in a dark corner inside stewing over this I happen to be outside in the lovely spring sun stewing over this.

SNP are right?

I would normally be against any government involvement in the way we live our lifes and especially one witch is high in bureaucracy but it has come apparent some thing has to be dune about binge drinking to save the liberty of other drinkers. If we follow a socialist lead with Labour we will see all drinkers penalized with the governments planed tax hike.

Some thing witch is embed into the social conscience and culture of this nation alcohol is; as the Scottish Parliament reports, is a 'complex relationship with alcohol' there is no doubt we need to change the culture of drinking especially with underage drinkers but also uphold the traditional culture of Scot's and the rest of Briton drinking.

I welcome the proposal by the SNP to day. It is simply to put a limit price on all alcohol now the idea to this would be to price out the cheep nasty drinks witch not only taste like poison but also high in alcohol. I do think if people where given the choice they would buy the better drink if it was of equal in price. This drink limit would also go into the pub and bar witch would stop the happy hours which we see on high street bars. The happy hours are on the cheep and nasty drinks it dues takes the Mick out of a smaller independent bar/pub happy hour who are behaving responsibly.

Now this is open to not only stop the people who abuse the luxury of alcohol but also the honest chap who might wont a pint of bitter after work. I do fill as much as I do welcome the min prise on booze that a more complex system working on each individual drinks and placing them in catagree. For example a bottle of wine at the supermarket witch is at the £5 mark if this bottle fills the right standard to be on a low tax band it should but if it has found out to be of low querty of drink it should be higher tax. Now I don't wont this to be a snob thing on good/bad wine it should be as easy as compeering a 2 letter plastic bottle of white lighting with a bottle of Pedigree but this is some thing whitch should not be dune by bureaucrats but by the W&S industry with the health pros.

What ever happens this is short term. To take some thing what has grown out of 12 years of Labour I cant help think we need to educate children not just by nagging them of the danger of alcohol but of what acceptable behavior of drinking and its etiquettes. Also the fact we seen our police tide down with red tape witch stops them getting on the street to stop bad behaver and when they are not being back up by the law. If some one found with a hand gun they can get 3 mouth what are the courts going to do with drunken kids smashing windows a finger shake? It is not as easy to just slap new laws down we need to change the way some people drink.