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Croatia: Croatia and Italy may clash over prosecco and proshek

2013/07/03

With Croatia's entrance into the European Union on July 1, a dispute may arise between Italian and Croatian wine producers on the marketing and sale of two wines - the Italian prosecco and the Croatian proshek - with names similar enough to potentially confuse consumers but which are entirely different.

Croatian proshek is a sweet, mild traditional Dalmatian wine normally served next meals and is made from raisins. Italian prosecco is instead a D.O.C. white wine which by presently enjoys EU protection and is produced in the Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia regions.

Requests from Italy have by presently been lodged for Croatia to give up the name of its wine, while the Croatian Winegrowers Association has announced that it will be taking all necessary steps to protect the Dalmatian wine at the European level with its original name. ''Proshek has been produced in Dalmatia for centuries.

A bottle dating back to the end of the 19th century has recently been found. Alongside the Croatian agriculture ministry, we are preparing the documentation to prevent our right to sell it under its traditional name from being taken from us,'' said a member of the association. Minister Tihomir Jakovina has by presently contacted the institutions in Brussels under whose jurisdiction the matter falls, but the official procedure can only begin once Croatia enters the EU. ''I don't see any problem.

They are two entirely different wines of similar but not identical names,'' the Croatian minister said a few weeks ago in announcing that in any case, if necessary, ''the Zagreb government will do everything possible to protect Croatian wine producers''. 

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