Chartrons
Riverside merchant quarter of eighteenth-century warehouses once at the heart of a notorious wine-fraud trial.
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This guide to Chartrons in Bordeaux opens on a June morning in nineteen seventy-three, when tax inspectors knocked at a warehouse door and the director of the Cruse wine house threw them out, turning a routine audit into a formal complaint. It follows what that complaint uncovered: a broker named Pierre Bert selling cheap southern wine relabeled under grand Bordeaux names, and the negociants who bottled and shipped it worldwide under those borrowed names. Stand on the Quai des Chartrons and picture close to two million bottles moving through these same warehouses before anyone noticed.
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