Cognac makers fume as sales slump

The Independent - London | October 4, 1998| | Copyright

IT LOOKS set to be a good harvest when the cognac grapes are gathered next week. But it will be a bitter harvest, too.

Both quality and yield are expected to be excellent - more is the pity. Instead of rejoicing, wine-growers have taken to the streets. Half the harvest of the white grapes which make the world's most celebrated brandy will, in effect, be thrown away: converted into industrial alcohol or made into table wine.

Cognac, the "drink of the angels", has fallen from grace. An abrupt slump of sales in recessionary Japan and Russia has sharpened a local crisis that has long been ...

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