Bordeaux négociant Savas has been found guilty of fraud after illegally mixing wine and selling incorrectly labelled products.
Investigators discovered 14,400 bottles of vin de table wine, destined for Taiwan, carrying labels on the neck of the bottle fraudulently describing the wine as "Bordeaux", when it should have been marked as "vin de table rouge francais". Savas was ordered to pay fines totalling EUR5,940 (US$7,442).
The négociant was also charged with irregularly mixing 169 hectolitres - or a potential 22,500 bottles - of wine to boost the structure and alcohol content to the standards required for a wine to meet AOC regulations.
Sectors: Wine
