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Bordeaux wine producers warn allowing U.S. labels to use ‘chateau’ would be ‘cheating’

Bordeaux wine producers warned Monday that a European Union decision to authorise their US rivals to use the term ‘chateau’ on bottles sold in Europe would amount to “cheating consumers”. As things stand, American wines which use ‘chateau’ on their label cannot be sold in the European Union, where rules…