Bordeaux, on-trade, threatened by financial fall-out
Decanter.com (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
... hit because it is restaurants that are seeing biggest drop off in sales of super-premium wines. Yves Le Pin, sommelier at Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester, said, 'The average bottle spend has dropped 40% or 50% over the past six months. We are looking at buying third wines, such as the excellent Pauillac de Chateau Latour, rather than even second wines that are still too expensive.' But there...
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