This law represents one of the most liberal or libertarian approaches possible. For each denomination, at least four or five public hearings were provided, truly public, in which all producers of the area and the territory concerned were invited and summoned.

Article by article, they built the law from Article 1 to the last. Each one was discussed, and each article was voted on. Any objections were regularly recorded in the minutes.

Under the guidance of Paolo Desana, the DOCs grew to exceed two hundred, and the phenomenon of wine tourism in Italy began.

Andrea tells us that he is currently recovering the volumes containing the first minutes that document the processes that took place, explaining why some were realised in one way, others in another, why certain specifications emerged in particular forms, and why the zones were delimited as they were. These documents explain the reasoning behind the final decision.