The reason for the topic of the master's thesis is the desire to modernise winegrowing regionalization and to introduce a winegrowing classification in Slovenia in accordance with good practises from abroad. We come to the conclusion that there is no really functioning winegrowing classification system in Slovenia, although the foundations have been laid. In Slovenia, we have a very detailed regionalization of wine-growing areas. Slovenian legislation prescribes how winegrowers can indicate these areas on wine labels. After examining the legislation and the Slovenian wine market, it is difficult to claim that this system can be described as a classification that actually divides into quality classes. This is also pointed out by Slovenian winegrowers' associations, which are endeavouring to improve the issue of classification in our legislation. The vast majority of major European wine producers (France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Austria) have classification systems based on geographical origin. This means that the indication of a narrower origin necessarily implies a higher quality of wine. Most of these systems are regulated by law at national level, but can be further detailed in the individual narrower regionalization units. In order to introduce a uniform classification system based on geographical origin in Slovenia, we propose some updates to regionalization. These include reducing the total number of regionalization units from five to four, merging units of similar size and introducing new units such as "village" and "vineyard". We propose to create a new classification system based on regionalization at the same time as the change in regionalization. In the first proposal, we suggest improving the system based on the existing traditional terms and setting stricter production conditions for their use. In the second, more complex proposal, we suggest to delete the existing traditional terms and introduce four classification levels based on four regionalization units.
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