European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 27, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Next year s Burgundy looks like a bargain Burgundy hit in ways Botn the object of great Trtat lion in Beaune France. By Paul Lewis new Vorlik times i Rii is til now Burgundy u Ini s fell Liy up in fill percent. Arid soil amt s More it Iho recent 2f la consumer i Hun this wine k bottled item and shirt. To Entile in the Marvel. Tins of wines belonging i -1 medieval in pe.ium1 m u llii1 be Rutili Price la nil Fajr s Burgundy production. Tilt1 sue Mil furred Biff Nurl wines. While burgundies ulary in la United , held up Betler. Kimili they tit i i is e he general Delline. The Price fall was mainly to Tribuz be i sve ilk train it demand especially in tilt1 United Stales where the falling Dollar h pushing up in Ceil of in Noru d Wini. But ii Hubli Joboul the of his year s a indigo find ifs Rollive Niibu Mclance also played a rank. The 1m in Burgundy wine prices wiped out much of last Yeier s big Jet crime when prices jumped about 8u percent on average. It aun ended a six year run of steady manual Pritt inc Beisys wine a Fiers and it it hints generally welcomed i fall. They Saiti in would Siren Given Der Nanri had Boon depressed by i of s big Price Rise. In l he uni Ltd , whith account for Mure than 40 percent of White Burgundy exports and 12 percent of rid lower prices it la to i to Ted id help Burgundy Virt Ell to tit by Al i "vl1 we wire in Dan sol Rul being priced out by Thi week Dollar. To iffy s Primus will help Offit l that Robert Drouin j prominent Burgundy wine producer and a member of the Burgundy Winter producers committee. to ten nip d by More than 31 pore it in ihi1 first Hall of this is he declined if inst the French rant drug Hin pointed Oul. The Trocie Hajj inn fur ,1 inh in ," Siil Luuis , i ult f wint1 makers got is if Ali As they did last i in Michel , mayor of 1lic Vine a Kink Villi end i Janjy in own or of j Vineyard Thuro. The wine so j Cut h Riivet Stoer comes from the vineyards bequeathed Over enl uries to the charitable Htu Pital Oundell in 1441 by Vitolis Rolin Chancellor to Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy. Proceeds still go to la Hospital. I is a merry occasion Leta takes place during three Days ref celebrations and feasting known locally As ies trois Tori Eusch Marscine the end of the wine Harvest. The town of Liu Autie is closed to traffic on auction Day and tour iils mingle with wine merchants from 4mli a y Crk Al is ilii1 bids in. No tall Liili ii Raj i India d. Re scr asks of Gorton Charle Diagne ois de i ii fur lt3, re la francs path Ili Jilly ii inn year s 110,000 Bui Corlon Veri wings Vahidi mild Lor i francs .1 cask last , Fili Herl 7h,0lll francs. And my re Fonh Pic i Liun will for 46,000 francs Airai Isi gift pm i i in. As is traditional at the at lion me s for particular Chari Lirt fetched very High sums. Kriter a French maker of spin Riding wines paid 1 76,000 francs for a single cask i Beaune Louis Berault specially selected by the . Ambassador to France Job m. Rodgers to comm Emorite the Centennial of the statue of i Wiberly in new Vork Harbor the company said in would auction the bottled wine later in new York the proceeds to cancer research Andre Boisseau head of the wine merchants firm called Patriarche Pard 1 50,000 francs for a of he same wine sold foe the profit of a latin american Charity called Vij Maria. Last month two leading american importers of Burgundy wines visited the Region to plead for lower prices .11 the auction in order to offset the s declining International value. Peter Sichel of Sichel & frument and b. Simon of chateau and estate Enlil a meeting of More than 60 leading burgundian wine merchants and producers that a 35 percent decline was needed to preserve Burgundy s the american Market. Ill Pitt Siguine nov Emht 27, 1ss6
