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Vineyard

Planting authorisation

Official permission to plant a particular area with vines.

Vineyard area may not be expanded freely in the EU. A new planting needs an authorisation, a replanting after grubbing-up needs one too, and both are time-limited.

The time limit is where money expires: an authorisation not used lapses. That is not a return but a date — and dates that only come round every few years are the ones that slip.

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Site A defined, named area of vineyard whose name may appear on the label. Vineyard register The official record of every vineyard area an estate works, held by the competent authority of…
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