On Mar 17, 3:21�am, Steve Slatcher > wrote:

> Production WITHIN Champagne is restricted and, as Tom Stevenson
> pointed out towrds the end of the article, the mechanism they
> cuurrently employ has little effect on quality - it's about
> restricting supply to keep prices high.
>


Sorry I was unclear, I meant that the Champagne association had not
tried to restrict the production of OTHERS. Within the region, they
have yield restrictions, but I believe they are 1.5 to 2 X what other
areas allow, so scarcely a quality guarantee.