Awards and citations:


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'

2011: Robert M. Parker, Jnr: ‘This blogger...’:

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

2012: International Wine Challenge – Personality of the Year Award




Friday 20 January 2012

Is Liliane Bettencourt a customer of 1855?

1855's Paris offices

Liliane Bettencourt, the L'Oréal heiress and the mother-in-law of Jean-Pierre Meyers a leading shareholder in 1855, was the unfortunate victim of a break-in this week. Two thieves broke into her villa on the north Brittany coast at l'Arcouest, Ploubazlanec and stole 40 bottles of wine. Read the article from Le Télégramme.com here.

It is possible that 40 bottles was the maximum load the miscreants could carry but you also have to wonder whether Madame Bettencourt's cellar wasn't nearly empty because of ordering her wine through 1855 – delays in delivery due to logistical problems and promises from the customer relations people, Mathieu and Carole, that the outstanding wine would arrive by the end of this month.......!!


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