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After receiving alerts at the end of 2015 on the Frenchization of Spanish wines, the Directorate-General for Competition for Consumption and the Repression of Fraud (DGCCRF) launched a survey in 2016 and 2017: more than 70,000 hectoliters of wine are concerned by this deception on nationality is the equivalent of 10 million bottles of rosé.
According to the establishments, the amounts of wine presented fraudulently range from 2,000 to 34,500 hectoliters. "Spanish wines were sold in bulk as a French wine or even usurped a name of French Protected Geographical Indication (PGI)," says the DGCCRF in its investigation report revealed yesterday. In total, 743 establishments were audited in two years: "22% of establishments visited in 2016 and 15% of establishments visited in 2017 were subject to non-compliance ranging from confusing presentation to French-language", states the repression of frauds.
A fleur-de-lys, a French badade, the words "Produced in France" or "Bottled in France" were put forward while the original mention "Vin d'Espagne" or "Vin de la European community "was on the back of the bottle and not legible.
The drinking establishments affected by fraud
The survey was extended to cafes, hotels and restaurants to check in particular the origin of wines sold in the pitcher or glbad: 2,414 establishments were thus controlled. The investigators noted among the failings "the absence of mention of origin of the wine on the wine list while the confusion is maintained by the use of French-sounding commercial names", but also "voluntary Francisations of the origin. " But it was Spanish wine.
The reason for this fraud? "It's a matter of price," says Jérôme Despey, general secretary of the FNSEA and winemaker in the Hérault. "The bulk Spanish rosé was sold in 2016 around 0.35 euro per liter, at the French level it was on average 0.85 euro per liter, it was double the same! "He recalls. Changing the label was big.
This distortion of competition is due in large part to large production surpluses in Spain in 2016, which caused a drop in prices. However, the situation has been restored to the 2017 harvest, which is very small throughout the European Union, notes Jérôme Despey.
The penalties for deceptive commercial practice are two years in prison and a fine of 300,000 euros. which can be increased to 10% of the annual average turnover
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