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Title : Raphaël Michel 'used cheap wine in quality bottles
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Source : Daily Mail
Year : 2017
Link : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4759068/French-wine-company-used-cheap-wine-quality-bottles.html
Country : France
Commodity: AB-Wines, musts
Abstract: Up to 40million bottles of cheap red wine might have been passed off as high-quality French bottles in a multimillion-pound fraud, it has been revealed. The country's largest bulk merchant is under investigation for allegedly selling cheap table wine and passing it off as quality Cotes du Rhone and Chateauneuf-du-Pape. Guillaume Ryckwaert, CEO of bulk wine company Raphaël Michel, based in Piolenc in Provence, was arrested on fraud charges and has since been released on a one-million euro (£900,000) bail. France's largest bulk wine merchant, Raphael Michel, is under investigation for allegedly selling cheap table wine and passing it off as quality Cotes du Rhone (file photo left) and Chateauneuf-du-Pape (file photo right)It is feared that from 2013 up to 40million bottles of counterfeit wine were sold or are still on sale across Europe. The bottles were priced between £20 and £100, though their contents were allegedly cheap table wine from outside of the Rhône, despite claiming to be from the region.