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Italy & Croatia Fight over Prosecco Name, Again

Hanh Dinh, 11.11.2021

Italy is rowing with Croatia over the name Prosecco as Croatia attempts to get EU-protected label status for its Prošek wine.

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Italy and Croatia are at loggerheads over Prosecco’s name after the EU decided last month that it would consider the Croatian request to put the Prošek name on its locally produced wine. "The problem for us is not that these producers, who make a very small number of bottles, enter our market. But it is the confusion it could generate among consumers," Luca Giavi, general director of the Prosecco DOC Consortium, said.

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