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Why A Cristal Summer on the Côte d'Azur?

Posted: Aug 21, 2006 2:58pm ET

You have to wonder how much prestige cuvée Champagne is consumed in dark, loud and smoky clubs around the world. I was in Les Cave du Roi last weekend in St. Tropez, and I saw buckets full of 1999 Roederer Cristal being consumed like bottles of Evian at a beach clubs during the day.

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