✨ Food Standards
20 DECEMBER
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
4715
Standard 2.7.5
Spirits
Purpose
This Standard defines the words, ‘brandy’, ‘liqueur’ and ‘spirit’, and provides compositional permissions for spirits and brandy, and permissions for the addition of certain foods to brandy during its production.
The Standard also protects geographical indications which represent a given quality, reputation or other characteristic of the product which is essentially attributable to its geographical origin. This protection implements Article 23 of the World Trade Organisation Agreement on Trade and Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (“TRIPs”).
Table of Provisions
1 Interpretation
2 Composition of spirit and brandy
3 Addition of other foods to brandy during production
4 Geographical indications
Clauses
1 Interpretation
In this Standard-
brandy means a spirit obtained from the distillation of wine, or fermented preparations of grapes or grape product.
liqueur means a spirit flavoured or mixed with other foods.
geographical indication means an indication, whether express or implied -
(a) which identifies a spirit as originating in a particular country, locality or region; and
(b) where a given quality, reputation or other characteristic of the spirit is essentially attributable to its origin in that particular country, locality or region.
spirit means a potable alcoholic distillate, including whisky, brandy, rum, gin, vodka and tequila, which, unless otherwise required by this Standard, contains at least 37% alcohol by volume, produced by distillation of fermented liquor derived from food sources, so as to have the taste, aroma and other characteristics generally attributable to that particular spirit.
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Online Sources for this page:
VUW Te Waharoa —
NZ Gazette 2000, No 170
Gazette.govt.nz —
NZ Gazette 2000, No 170
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