Row erupts over Champagne in VIP boxes at French sports stadiums
France’s health minister has suggested that Champagne be banned from VIP boxes in football stadiums...
Sophie Kevany is a freelance journalist, editor and researcher who is based in Bordeaux, France.
For Decanter, she reports on the news in Bordeaux, as well as covering various areas of the world wine industry such as environmentalism and reporting on wine markets.
She has formerly written for Agence France-Press, Dow Jones Newswires and the Profitable Ideas Exchange in Bordeaux.
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An official in Bordeaux has risked the ire of some chateaux owners by saying a tax break meant for small-scale producers should be closed to estates controlled by corporate firms and wealthy families.
A French pensioner who pretended he was dead to avoid paying tens of thousands of euros in unpaid wine bills has been sentenced to 18 months of electronic cuff surveillance, with 10 months suspended.
A winemaker in southern France has narrowly escaped prison after being found guilty of smuggling banned pesticides into the country.
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