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...setting as Alfred Tesseron finishes his tour of the Château Pontet-Canet, which is perched on a hill above the legendary Bordeaux wine village of Pauillac. He has talked proudly about how his father bought the château 30 years ago. He has driven his electric cart along the neat rows of vines and pointed out some of his big recent investments: the state-of-the-art water recycling[an error occurred while processing this directive] system, the new storage and bottling barn and the twin rows of conical fermentation vats. Now comes the moment of truth...
...This is the wasteful - some say, shameful - side of the European Union's wine regime: when vineyards produce more than they're able to sell, the E.U. hands out subsidies to turn the surplus into industrial alcohol. The cash is supposed to be be reserved for exceptionally difficult years, but "crisis distillation subsidies" have been paid out three times since 2001. At €500 million a time, it's a hugely expensive way to deal with a market imbalance. And the European Commission is determined that it should stop. In June, the Commission published proposals for sweeping changes...
...fight. Jean Gazaniol says he hesitated for a long time, but then finally bowed to reality and sold the Château de Parenchère, which his father bought almost 50 years ago. It's a gorgeous 19th century mansion with 65 hectares of vines whose wine is exported to 60 countries. The estate was bought by Per Landin, a Swede who made his fortune trading oil in London and who says he's passionate about wine. He's 44, and was looking for a place in which to retire. Gazaniol has promised to help...
...Some in Bordeaux may shudder at that prospect, but the region as a whole is racing to compete better. Some winemakers are thinking of allowing some winemaking techniques they long spurned, including sprinkling wood chips in maturing wine as a cheap alternative to keeping it in oak barrels. And they recently scrapped their regulations on AOC wine to enable producers to make a table wine, to be called Vin de Pays de l'Atlantique. Christian Delpeuch and other Bordeaux merchants aren't waiting. In the conference room at Ginestet, Delpeuch shows off a bottle of his latest creation, aimed...
...shortly before 11 p.m. on a mid-September Monday, and Arnaud Mirey is preparing for the grand opening of VIN, a high-end wine shop featuring the finest offerings from Bordeaux. On the second floor of the shop, against the wall in a big glass display case, sit 40 of the great wines from the region, including a 1985 Château Margaux[an error occurred while processing this directive] that's on sale for a mere $1,487.50. Asked if wine is now certifiably hot in China, Mirey, the former sommelier at Petrus, a splashy French restaurant in Hong...