Bachelot's measures to ban free wine tasting appeared to menace events like the Salon des Vins de Loire
Le Figaro reports this morning that France’s Minister of Health, Roselyne Bachelot, has argued for a reasonable, cultural and balanced approach to drinking alcohol. And that her measures to ban ‘free drinking’ in ‘open bars’ will not restrict tasting at amateur or professional wine fairs. As France is a wine producing country it would be impossible and unthinkable to ban wine.
Bachelot says that she has never seen wine producers offer as much wine as you want rather that they give only small samples to taste. She also says that she is in favour of allowing advertising for alcoholic products on the net but under ‘drastic conditions’ – no spams, no pop-ups and not on sites directed to the young or sports sites. She would have a watchdog to follow everything to do with alcohol on the net.
I have to wonder why it has taken Roselyne Bachelot so long to make her position clearer. It could be good news about alcohol and the net but it depends upon the detail of the 'drastic conditions' and the powers and scope of her watchdog.
Bachelot says that she has never seen wine producers offer as much wine as you want rather that they give only small samples to taste. She also says that she is in favour of allowing advertising for alcoholic products on the net but under ‘drastic conditions’ – no spams, no pop-ups and not on sites directed to the young or sports sites. She would have a watchdog to follow everything to do with alcohol on the net.
I have to wonder why it has taken Roselyne Bachelot so long to make her position clearer. It could be good news about alcohol and the net but it depends upon the detail of the 'drastic conditions' and the powers and scope of her watchdog.
