The sale takes place on the net, and the customer pays only French taxes, and not Danish or Swedish luxury taxes. Freight per mail is of course very expensive, champagne must be packed up in a speciel manner to survive transport, but the final bill is still a lot cheaper than buying your champagne in the Swedish monopoly for buying alcoholic beverages - Systembolaget - or even a Danish wineshop.
Monopoly does not give up without fight
This way of trading has been in a grey zone for a while, but now a battle between EU and Sweden is coming up. Systembolaget - the monopoly store - has tried to stop the foreign netshops from selling wine - and champagne - to Swedes, who were fed up paying too much.
But the EU-Commission is on the side of the winegrowers and netshops, and it has now announced a courtcase against Sweden at the EU-Court this summer or autumn. A spokesperson for the EU-Commission, Caroline Stege, says to the British winemagazine Decanter, that EU has two cases against Sweden, where the monopoly breaks the principle of the free movement of goods in EU.
The winegrower Thierry Perrion in Verzenay, Montagne de Reims delivers as described above. Read more here. Netshops with a big selection of wines and champagne: Chateauonline, 1855.com and Berry Brothers.
Read more at Decanter.com.
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