The phrase "appellations of origin" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in legal and commercial contexts to refer to geographical indications that identify a product as originating from a specific place, where its quality or reputation is linked to that location.
Example: "The wine produced in this region is protected by appellations of origin, ensuring that only products from this area can use the designation."
Alternatives: "geographical indications" or "origin labels".
Less than half of those are appellations of origin.
That matter has long been dictated by Mexican law, which says only liquors made in Mexico's official appellations of origin for tequila and mezcal can use those names.
Oregon law has long forbidden use of place names, except as appellations of origin.
In addition, various distilled beverages (generically called mescal, including the appellations of origin Tequila, Bacanora and Raicilla) are prepared with fermented cooked stems.
We compared the genomes of five commercial winemaking strains, eight strains isolated from winemaking environments of two wine producing regions in Portugal, namely the Bairrada and Vinho Verde appellations of origin, and three clinical strains.
Candidates have 25 minutes to sample six wines and identify each by vintage, grape variety and the country, as well as district and appellation of origin.
In Cologne, I would drink Kölsch, a light and fruity pale ale, one of the few beers protected by an appellation of origin as if it were a wine.
This work was designed in order to study the predominant microflora in artisanal and industrial Appellation of Origin Manchego cheeses and its influence on the biochemical characteristics and the gustative profile of the cheeses at 60 days of ripening (just the moment that the cheeses can be marketed).
Anheuser-Busch said yesterday that the court concluded that "Bud" was not a reference to the city -- Ceske Budejovice -- where Budejovicky Budvar is based, and, therefore, that the Czech brewer could not claim it as a so-called appellation of origin.
While tequila is produced in northern Mexico around Jalisco and uses only blue agave, according to Mexico's appellation of origin laws mezcal can be made from up to 30 varieties of cultivated or wild agave in the villages of seven Mexican states: Oaxaca, Guerrero, Durango, San Luis Potosí, Zacatecas, Tamaulipas, and Guanajuato.
Now a movement is occurring in California to make the most of those pot strains via "appellation of origin" designations that will protect both consumers and sellers alike.
