{"id":3636,"date":"2011-10-09T18:58:32","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T18:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=3636"},"modified":"2011-10-09T18:58:32","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T18:58:32","slug":"a-winegrower-potentially-ruined-by-bureaucratic-nonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/uncategorized\/a-winegrower-potentially-ruined-by-bureaucratic-nonsense","title":{"rendered":"A winegrower potentially ruined by bureaucratic nonsense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMGP9337.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3641\" title=\"oliviercousin\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMGP9337.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMGP9337.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMGP9337-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMGP9337-150x108.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMGP9337-400x288.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is wrong, and it shouldn&#8217;t happen.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I could do something about it. All I can manage is this blog post.<\/p>\n<p>Olivier Cousin, a natural winegrower in Anjou, makes some fabulously idiosyncratic wines that offend some, but bring others a great deal of pleasure. I love his wines.<\/p>\n<p>He did something a bit mischievous. He put the initials AOC on a wine, but used them to spell out &#8220;Appellation Olivier Cousin&#8221;. For this he has fallen foul of the authorities, and has racked up legal bills, as well as facing a hefty fine. It could be enough to put him out of business.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Olivier is the (wild) spirit of Anjou,&#8217; says Doug Wregg of his UK importers Les Caves de Pyrene. &#8216; I can&#8217;t believe he\u00a0might be ruined because of some bureaucratic nonsense.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>There is a petition in support of Olivier on the Glougeule website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glougueule.fr\/2011\/10\/tous-cousin\/comment-page-7\/#comment-2523\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is wrong, and it shouldn&#8217;t happen. I wish I could do something about it. All I can manage is this blog post. Olivier Cousin, a natural winegrower in Anjou,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3636"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3642,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636\/revisions\/3642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}