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1997: Le Prix du Champagne Lanson Noble Cuvée Award for investigations into Champagne for the Millennium investment scams

2001: Le Prix Champagne Lanson Ivory Award for investdrinks.org

2011: Vindic d'Or MMXI – 'Meilleur blog anti-1855'

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2012: Born Digital Wine Awards: No Pay No Jay – best investigative wine story

2012: International Wine Challenge – Personality of the Year Award




Tuesday 23 February 2010

Fake Pinot Noir: time for resignations

In my contribution today on our cooperative blog – Les 5 du Vin – I call for the resignations of Alain Gayda and Pierre Mirc, managing director and president respectively, of Sieur d'Arques. Although Gayda and Mirc both protested their innocence of the fraud, the court judgment identifies them, especially Gayda, as amongst the principals in the fraud.

Although the oenologue who told the truth to the police has lost her job at Sieur d'Arques, Gayda and Mirc both remain in post despite the court's damning verdict. Nowadays it is clear that nobody resigns even when involved in a 7 million € fraud.

See on Les 5 du Vin heads must roll!

For an alternative view see the posting here on the blog of Jacques Berthomeau.

Other posting on the fake Pinot Noir here, here, here and here.

2 comments:

Vicky Wine said...

Agreed! I should write an article on this matter too!

Jim's Loire said...

Hi Miss Vicky! Would be good if you wrote an article, too, on this. Let me know when it's posted and I'll put up a link.