April 13/London/Daily Mail -- EU rules have forced an award-winning English wine producer to label its latest bottle of red as a “fruit-based alcoholic beverage.” Chapel Down in Kent has created the U.K.’s first ever Malbec wine with grapes imported from Argentina.
However, European guidelines state that because the grapes were not grown in the U.K., the drink cannot be called a Malbec. Instead it must be labeled a “fruit-based alcoholic beverage.”