On one hand, they do preserve the recipes and flavors to certain products. This is good.
On the other hand, the impact on the end product of some of the requirements are certainly up for debate and arguably placed just to create legal monopolies for the producers.
And in the end, I think that a label is just a label. I can easily agree with only certain producers being able to label "authentic" or "heritage" or such, but just the product name itself? In my mind, it's just sneaky monopolies. It's not like people won't bend the rules to breaking all over the place anyways. Anyone who really cares about the product will know the difference anyways. I mean, I don't even drink that much and I know the big difference between Tennessee Whiskey and Bourbon Whiskey. Because I like Whiskey and wanted to know. What matters is the product. Yes, if suddenly letting someone in Argentina make Champagne changed the flavor, then okay, don't let it be called Champagne. But in this case, the Taiwanese showed they can make Scotch that not only tastes like scotch, but like GOOD scotch.
On the other hand, the impact on the end product of some of the requirements are certainly up for debate and arguably placed just to create legal monopolies for the producers.
And in the end, I think that a label is just a label. I can easily agree with only certain producers being able to label "authentic" or "heritage" or such, but just the product name itself? In my mind, it's just sneaky monopolies. It's not like people won't bend the rules to breaking all over the place anyways. Anyone who really cares about the product will know the difference anyways. I mean, I don't even drink that much and I know the big difference between Tennessee Whiskey and Bourbon Whiskey. Because I like Whiskey and wanted to know. What matters is the product. Yes, if suddenly letting someone in Argentina make Champagne changed the flavor, then okay, don't let it be called Champagne. But in this case, the Taiwanese showed they can make Scotch that not only tastes like scotch, but like GOOD scotch.
You seem to be missing that most of the labels are for products named after a region, which one generally cannot get a trademark for. Scotch is something from Scotland and Champagne is from the Champagne region in France.
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- 25/01/2010 02:34:43 PM
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I was actually reading something about the whiskys Asia was churning out
- 25/01/2010 03:20:30 PM
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It's a protected label in the EU
- 25/01/2010 03:47:29 PM
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I still haven't decided if I approve of protected labels.
- 25/01/2010 04:41:45 PM
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Normally it would be a trade mark
- 25/01/2010 04:56:59 PM
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No, I am not missing that.
- 25/01/2010 05:02:04 PM
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Partly
- 25/01/2010 05:09:25 PM
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So then if a Scotch Whisky is made in Scotland...
- 25/01/2010 05:32:42 PM
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But the Taiwanese brand doesn't meet the standards for Scotch.
- 25/01/2010 05:54:43 PM
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I mean the standards of taste and quality
- 25/01/2010 06:52:10 PM
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But that's not really the point, is it?
- 25/01/2010 07:33:00 PM
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Just how I think about things then 
I think their body and substance is far more important.
- 25/01/2010 07:54:07 PM
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I think their body and substance is far more important.
- 25/01/2010 07:54:07 PM
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There's nothing snobby about protecting a brand which makes a lot of money for your country.
- 25/01/2010 04:03:45 PM
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I didn't say that it was snobby to do that.
- 25/01/2010 04:27:57 PM
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Re: I didn't say that it was snobby to do that.
- 25/01/2010 04:51:43 PM
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You still get my point.
- 25/01/2010 04:53:33 PM
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Why should they have to label it that?
- 25/01/2010 04:59:13 PM
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Because Scotch indicates a type of Whisky, not ONLY its location.
- 25/01/2010 05:09:09 PM
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There is, as far as I'm aware, nothing stopping them from doing that.
- 25/01/2010 05:13:14 PM
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And see, there's a difference in my mind.
- 25/01/2010 05:18:33 PM
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I guess so
- 25/01/2010 05:21:19 PM
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I so knew someone was going to say something along those lines 9_9
- 25/01/2010 05:35:59 PM
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You also should add that it is protecting the consumer
- 25/01/2010 04:34:22 PM
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again, though, there's no need to be rude 
- 25/01/2010 04:42:27 PM
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- 25/01/2010 04:42:27 PM
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I imagine so
- 25/01/2010 04:58:40 PM
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yes, how dare people make their own scotch.
- 25/01/2010 05:14:58 PM
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