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Bordeaux wine sellers, the middlemen between France's greatest vineyards and the world, acted last week as though they had just sipped sour Médoc. ";We are furious," snapped one. What they were furious about was the prospect of losing their profitable business with Chateau Latour, one of four venerable vineyards* that produce the only chateau-bottled Medoc wines rated as premier grand...
...highly secret negotiations, France's Beaumont family, which has owned the vineyard since 1670, is wrapping up the final details of a deal that would give co-ownership of Chateau Latour and its annual output of precious claret to Britain's Harvey's of Bristol Ltd. And as a world-girdling distributor of wine and spirits, Harvey's has no intention of sharing its cup with the middlemen of Bordeaux...
...Unbeliever and Christians, excerpted from a statement made in 1948 at the Dominican monastery of Latour-Mauborg in Paris, the reader will find baldly stated one tenet of Camus' entire outlook, echoing again and again through his works: "Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children." One thinks again of The Plague, and of the priest Paneloux who learned that suffering demands resistance, and that tyranny, in whatever form, cannot be excused by either its transcendental value or its universality...
Since the crippling frost of 1956 destroyed the vines of tens of thousands of acres, the French wine industry has staggered under the blows of poor quality and decreased quantity. The quality of this year's vintage is matched only by its quality. Jean Latour, producer of the rare white Burgundy, Croton-Charlemagne. says that in this century there has never been a year as abundant or as good. In the Romanée-Conti vineyards, the wine-men say that God waited until Archbishop Roncalli (who blessed the fields after the war, when he was papal nuncio...
...Morocco, 600 angry colons demonstrated against Deputy Resident General François de Panafieu because he had pressed De Latour to implement Faure's program for a three-man regency council. To placate them, De Panafieu offered his resignation on the spot (later, Billotte refused to accept...