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Wine
Wine

      
The wine products:    
Hroznový mušt - Grape must - can be offered and sold only from 1st August to 31st December of the year of the harvest
Burčiak - Partially fermented grape must - made from grapes that were grown and  processed in Slovakia. Can be offered and sold only from 15th August to 31st December of the year of the harvest
Tiché víno -Still Wine - Biele- White , Ružové/Rosé , Červené - Red
Víno bez zemepisného označenia- Wine without geographic indication is replacing former category of Stolové víno - Table wine. Minimum level of sugar content is 13 °NM.
Víno s chráneným zemepisným označením  - Wine with protected geographic indication - produced from grapes registered in the List of registered varieties, grown, produced and bottled in one of the Slovak wine regions,  maximum yield per hectare wasn't exceeded, minimum level of sugar content was 13 °NM and it fulfils the requirements of established product specification.
It can be indicated with the traditional term regionálne víno - regional wine if the grapes reached 15 °NM,  the maximum yield per hectare didn't exceed 18 000 kg/ha, wine has minimum 8.5% of alcohol and it complies with quality requirements.
Víno s chráneným označím pôvodu - Wine with protected indication of origin is produced from grapes registered in List of registered varieties, grown, produced and bottled in the same or proximate neighbouring Slovak wine regions, maximum yield per hectare wasn't exceeded, minimum level of sugar content was 16 °NM, there is existing protection on the designation of origin or geographical indication. Term „Districtus Slovakia Controllatus“, symbol and abbrevation „D. S. C.“ can be used if wine was certified.
Akostné víno - Quality wine classified by controlling institute as odrodové - single varietal (variety is written up in the List of registered grape varieties) or značkové branded (blend of 2 or more grape varieties or a single grape variety not written in the List or registered grape varieties). Wine is made from the grapes of which natural sugar content is at least 16 °NM and the maximum yield per hectare was not exceeded (18 000 kg/ha) with minimum of 9,5% alcohol. It can be chaptalised to 22 °NM for whites and 24 °NM for reds. Wine complies with quality requirements determined by special regulation.
Akostné víno s prívlastkom - Quality wine with attribute classified by the control institute as the "quality wine with attribute" complies with quality requirements determined by special regulation, the maximum yield per hectare is not exceeded (13 000 kg/ha), vine variety, origin of grapes, its natural sugar contents, weight and health condition are certified before processing by an employee of the control institute, the ban on increase in natural alcoholic strength by volume and adjustment of residual sugar is observed. The wine is indicated with one of the following attributes:
Kabinetné Kabinett - yielded from full mature grapes having natural sugar content of at least 19 °NM, and minimum of 9,5% alcohol. Wines are primarily suché - dry, rarely polosuché - medium dry.
Neskorý zber
Late harvest
yielded from full mature grapes having natural sugar contents of at least 21 °NM and minimum of 9,5% alcohol. Wines are primarily suché - dry, occasionally polosuché - medium dry and rarely polosladké - medium sweet.
Výber z hrozna Grapes selection - yielded from full mature grapes having natural sugar contents of at least 23 °NM, obtained from carefully selected bunches and with minimum of 9,5% alcohol. Residual sugar varies from suché -  to polosuché and polosladké - dry,medium dry and medium sweet.
Bobuľový výber Choice of berries - yielded from manually selected overripe grape bunches from which immature and impaired berries have been removed manually, having natural sugar contents of at least 26 °NM and at least 8 % of alcohol. Wines are having mainly higher residual sugar - polosuché - medium dry and polosladké - medium sweet, altough suché - dry versions are common as well.
Hrozienkový výber
- Choice of sultanas
- yielded exclusively from manually selected overripe natural grape berries, having sugar contents of at least 28 °NM and at least 8 % alcohol. Wines are primarily sladké - sweet.
Cibébový výber - Noble rot raisins selection - yielded exclusively from manually selected overripe grape berries refined by effect of Botrytis cinerea Persoon, having natural sugar contents of at least 28 °NM and minimum content 8 % of alcohol. Wines are sladké - sweet.
Ľadové víno - Ice wine - yielded from grapes harvested at the temperature of minus 7 °C and lower, the grapes remained frozen during the harvesting and processing, and the obtained must had natural sugar contents of at least 27 °NM, wine has at least 6 % of alcohol. Wines are sladké - sweet.
Slamové víno
- Straw wine
- yielded from well ripened grapes, stored before processing on straw or in reed matting, alternatively it has been left hanging on strings for at least three months and the natural sugar content of obtained must was at least 27 °NM, wine has at least 6 % of alcohol. Wines are primarily sladké - sweet.

Indication of the origin
  Protected indication of origin is represented by one of the 6 vine-growing regions (vinohradnícka oblasť), sub-region (vinohradnícky rajón) and wine growing village (vinohradnícka obec).
Akostné víno and Víno s chráneným označením pôvodu has to be indicated at least with the name of the vine-growing region, Akostné víno s prívlastkom with the name of the vine-producing sub-region or/and village.

Indication of the residual sugar content
  Suché - Dry If its sugar content does not exceed 4 grams per litre, or 9 grams per litre, provided that the total acidity expressed as grams of tartaric acid per litre is not more than 2 grams below the residual sugar content.
Polosuché Medium dry - If its sugar content exceeds the maximum set at above but not exceeds 12 grams per litre, or 18 grams per litre, provided that the total acidity expressed as grams of tartaric acid per litre is not more than 10 grams below the residual sugar content.
Polosladké Medium/Medium sweet - If its sugar content is higher than the maximum set at above but not more than 45 grams per litre.
Sladké Sweet - If its sugar content is of at least 45 grams per litre.

Terms that can be used by specific conditions
  Mladé víno Young wine - has to be bottled before the end of the year of harvest. It is allowed to put the wine into the circulation as from the first Monday of November.
Archívne víno Archive wine - has matured at least three years after harvesting the grapes used for the production of the wine.
Panenská úroda First fruits - grapes used for the production came from the first harvest of a vineyard. The first harvest has to be from the third or fourth year after planting.
 

For more detailed information - act of parliament 313/2009 and Announcement of the Slovak Ministry of Agriculture 350/2009 as well as Listina Registrovaných odrôd - The List of registered grape varieties (page 76 - Vinič Hroznorodý - Vitis Vinifera L.)

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 606/2009 - the categories of grapevine products, oenological practices and the applicable restrictions.

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 607/2009 - protected designations of origin and geographical indications, traditional terms, labelling and presentation of certain wine sector products.

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 555/2008 laying down detailed rules for implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 479/2008 on the common organisation of the market in wine.