Dave Smith > wrote:

>Steve Pope wrote:

>> I have always assumed they hid away all the great Bordeaux made during
>> the occupation years, and sold it all as '45 afterwards.

>According to the book "Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the
>Battle for France's Greatest Treasure ", the Germans pillaged most of
>the good wines and drank them or sent them back to Germany. The author
>claims that the vintners changed the labels so the Nazis thought they
>were getting the good stuff.

I started reading that book but didn't get very far... great
subject matter but stilted writing style.

I should buckle down and plow through it sometime.

Steve