{"id":20896,"date":"2013-06-30T11:30:35","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T16:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=20896"},"modified":"2013-06-30T11:30:35","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T16:30:35","slug":"its-very-difficult-to-regulate-greed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/06\/30\/its-very-difficult-to-regulate-greed\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It&#8217;s very difficult to regulate greed&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Icewine is what originally put Canadian wine on the international map. Icewine is an expensive thing to produce, and therefore has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/2013\/06\/27\/canada-tightening-rules-on-icewine-production-to-crackdown-on-fraud\" target=\"_blank\">drawn a lot of cheaters into the market<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Canada is tightening the rules for producing its popular icewine, a sweet dessert wine that is only made in cold climates, to crack down on fraudsters who sell mislabeled bottles that don&#8217;t make the grade.<\/p>\n<p>In regulations published this week, the Canadian government said any bottle labeled and sold as icewine must be made only from grapes that have frozen on the vine.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>Because the frozen grapes only yield a tiny amounts of sweet liquid, the dessert wine has a high cost and a high price. Grapes are left on the vine until the temperature falls to -8C (18F) over a prolonged period, and usually harvested overnight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s liquid gold,&#8221; said Paszkowski.<\/p>\n<p>In China, where icewine has become hugely popular, a thriving counterfeit industry is flooding the market with wines that don&#8217;t live up to the label, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s very difficult to regulate greed,&#8221; said Paszkowski. &#8220;We&#8217;ve identified counterfeit icewines even in five-star restaurants and hotels.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to Elizabeth for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Icewine is what originally put Canadian wine on the international map. Icewine is an expensive thing to produce, and therefore has drawn a lot of cheaters into the market: Canada is tightening the rules for producing its popular icewine, a sweet dessert wine that is only made in cold climates, to crack down on fraudsters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831,6,22,9,131],"tags":[194,428,87,661],"class_list":["post-20896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-cancon","category-china","category-law","category-wine","tag-fraud","tag-marketing","tag-ontario","tag-regulation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5r2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20898,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20896\/revisions\/20898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}