Downgrading: nm The downgrading of a wine is its downgrading in the hierarchy of controlled designations of origin (AOC), that is to say, passage after tasting, to a less precise appellation: a Saint-Estèphe downgraded by example at the rank of Haut-Médoc.
It therefore no longer meets the quality criteria of this AOC.
Or loss of any appellation of origin to simply become: red wine, white wine or rosé wine. For an AOC, any production exceeding the yield...
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