France Foreign Investments

Family wine makers in Bordeaux, the most famous of the world's viniculture regions, are shrugging off their traditional insularity and welcoming investment from large industrial concerns, many of them foreign. The corporate investors, who come from as far away as Japan and the United States, have gone on a chateau buying spree and they have the approval of the head of the region's wine growing association.

Family wine makers in Bordeaux, the most famous of the world's viniculture regions, are shrugging off their traditional insularity and welcoming investment from large industrial concerns, many of them foreign. The corporate investors, who come from as far away as Japan and the United States, have gone on a chateau buying spree and they have the approval of the head of the region's wine growing association.