> French wines and spirits are set to have a record year in 2006, with exports
> of cognac, champagne and bordeaux wines, and even French vodka, projected to
> bring in 8.0 billion euros (10.5 billion dollars).
Something like 80% of US cognac sales are in the inner city. Hip-hop
is the best thing that ever happened to the cognac industry.
> France, not traditionally associated with vodka, also managed to boost its
> exports in the first 10 months of this year of the drink by a hefty 132
> percent.
>
> This was largely due to the success of the Grey Goose vodka brand in the
> United States. France exported 320 million euros' worth of the drink in the
> first 10 months of this year.
Vodkas are very similar anyway - does anyone really care that it's
French rather than Russian?
> Britain remains the best customer for French wines and spirits, followed by
> the United States, Germany, Belgium and Japan.
Suprising to see Belgium on that list, but I guess the Spanish and
Italians drink so much of their own wines that they don't import a lot
of French wine.
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