Bit in the Times this morning about Georges B.
Mr Battut the state prosecutor said that barrels holding the equivalent of
300000 bottles, were found to be a mixture of cheap, average and expensive wines. "Everything was mixed up together, he said.
M Duboeuf said that an error, rather than fraudulent practice, lay behind the scandal. None of the wine was released on the market. It seemed that a manager acting alone had mixed the wines and had not informed the company, and had since been replaced.
His company now sells 36 million bottles a year.
Japan is the biggest importer of Beaujolais, taking 850,000 cases a year.
Ho-hum.................................................
JT