WORLD NOW DRINKS LESS CHAMPAGNE
PARIS.
The world is drinking less and less champagne, and French vintners are worried about it.
They can put up with the sudden American distaste for their product—-pre-war imports of 4,500,000 yearly have dropped to about half that figure—but they are particularly hurt by post-war indifference in France itself. Once they sold 28,000,000 bottles on the home market. Now they sell only 13,000,000.
Other pre-war markets have all but closed.
The champagne vintners, most of whom are small peasant land-holders, say that at present prices for their grapes there may soon be no champagne.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22941, 9 May 1949, Page 6
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