The French Rabbit wines are produced and packaged by French wine company Boisset Family Estates.
The bottles were caked in dust like a good French wine kept in a traditional cellar.
France's refusal to join the invading coalition led to U.S. boycotts of French wine and cheese.
Decanting is not limited to what is done to a hearty French wine.
When you buy a French wine labeled Chablis, you are always getting a pure chardonnay wine made in Chablis, period.
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French wine exports have suffered badly, as those of countries such as Australia, South Africa and the United States have risen.
But given the store that French wine-makers set by terroir, the country's courts may well decide that only Cuba can make Cuban rum.
Lebret contends the recent decline comes from the decision of a few retail executives to deemphasize French wine during the war because of a few complaints.
"The more I visited vineyards on my travels and got to know the wine growers and the regions, the more disillusioned I became with French wine, " he says.
Death had robbed him of his enviable coup and set up his daughter with one of the most remarkable inheritances the world of high-end French wine had ever seen.
On the day of Hollande's inauguration in mid-May, Merkel treated him to a feast of veal schnitzel and asparagus in Berlin, washed down with a fine red French wine.
He sleeps at a GRAND Hotel in Paris on Monday, drives through French wine country Tuesday, polishes off an 11-course dinner outside Vienna Wednesday and flies to Spain on Thursday.
The dangers of trading in rare wines was already apparent to Koch, who learned in 2005 that four bottles of French wine he believed had been once owned by Thomas Jefferson were fake.
The problem with French wine is its complexity.
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They're building a French wine empire by taking cues from their New World counterparts, using simpler labels and emphasizing regions recently embraced by the U.S. consumer: Spain, Chile, Argentina and the once- neglected Languedoc region of France.
One case in point is the Florida division of Publix, a 760-store supermarket chain, which canceled all French wine promotions in April, despite Lebret's personal appeal. (Such stores sell a lot of the lower-end Mouton Cadet line.) Lebret figures that there were at most half a dozen complaints beforehand.
For the last three years the French wine and spirits giant, whose portfolio includes Absolut vodka, Chivas Regal scotch and Malibu rum, has invited an up-and-coming fine art photographer to shoot a series of portraits for its annual report, building a one of a kind collection in the process.
French cigar traders draw a parallel with what happened to French wine making in the 1970s: despite scandals, defeats in tasting tests and competition from new wines on three continents, French growers complacently rested on their vines, convinced that they had the best soils, the best wine-making weather and the best grapes.
The pages on French red wine, for example, could have been left out or at least replaced with more interesting material, of which I will give two examples.
He balked, as did the married Elie de Rothschild, scion of the French banking and wine family.
Visiting teams brought their own food (and the French their own wine), donating some to the hungry Brits.
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This year, nearly a billion bottles' worth of French and Italian wine are expected to meet that ignominious end.
Mr. Botham, who had been educated to appreciate the delights of fine wine (mainly French) by the late cricket commentator and writer John Arlott, began a love affair with Australian wine.
Boisset introduced to North America in late 2005 a 1-liter paperboard carton of higher-quality wine called French Rabbit.
Now it boasts three divisions--ferries, ports and logistics, although most U.K. landlubbers know it solely as a means of doing a "booze cruise"--loading up a hired van with cheap beer and wine from French supermarkets for the festive season.
Some French farmers, such as wine producers, can compete well on the world market, so have no need for subsidies.
Heath notes that the wee bit of time the wine spends in French oak adds a bit of rich roundness, which nicely tames the bracing acidity.
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