The birth of the french Wine appellation system

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During the late 19th century phylloxera left European vineyards totally destroyed

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Leading wine merchants to buy grapes from everywhere to make blended wines

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Some even making artificial wines from sugar, water, and coloring agents

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Leading to extreme poverty among winegrowers, particularly in the South of France

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Striving for survival, winegrowers started to form organized groups

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Even wifes and daughters joined the movement

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Marcelin Albert ruled the uprising

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Which culmunated in the 1907 Montpellier protest, over 600 000 protesters invaded the streets

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However it was brutally repressed

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Inducing a meeting with the French president

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Forcing the government to pass the first Anti-Fraud act

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And stating that wines can only be made from grapes

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Which can be seen as the origin of the current French appellation system

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Even bringing the creation of Quality Labels, helping customers to identify 'true' wines

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The First World War (14-18) halted these ongoing endeavours

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Created in 1935, the INAO, finally, gave birth to the French Appellation System for wines

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The birth of the french Wine appellation system

A Brief history

1907

the winegrower uprising

1914

World war I

The FIRST AOC

1936