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Fake goods leave bitter taste in vintners' mouths

MADE IN `TORONTOW' Canadian wine makers say a booming sale of counterfeit ice wines in Asia is cutting into their revenues and damaging their good reputation

AFP , Vancouver, Canada

Vintners are pushing for stricter labelling laws that recognize the ice wine definition set out by Canada, Austria and Germany in May 2000.

The US and the EU adopted similar definitions last year and the World Wine Trade Group is now negotiating a labelling agreement between member countries that will recognize the ice wine's true definition.

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