BOOTLEG CHAMPAGNE
VARYING PRICES. LONDON, November 3. Trading on new West End night club frequenters’ ignorance, vasi quantities of bootleg champagne are being dumped at ridiculous prices, says the ‘Weekly Dispatch.’ • There are only two genuine types of champagne, according to a leading importer—the dry, which the English prefer, and the sweet, which the French drink—but the bootleggers are suffering either from cold feet or bankruptcy, and are exporting to London a third type, made from the dregs of the grapes. _ This is worth half a crown in France, fetches £5 in America, and undersells the genuine 12s 6d variety at 10s in London, though night club members are swindled into paying 455.
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Evening Star, Issue 19407, 16 November 1926, Page 3
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113BOOTLEG CHAMPAGNE Evening Star, Issue 19407, 16 November 1926, Page 3
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