Bordeaux out to educate Chinese, fight scammers

SHANGHAI - Reports of rogue wine traders using 2009 Bordeaux futures sales to scam Chinese consumers in Shanghai have been exaggerated, Thomas Jullien, of the Bordeaux Wine Council, said on Tuesday.

He was in town to promote Bordeaux's Sept 5-30 exhibition in the France Pavilion, during which time the region will introduce a special cuve for Expo 2010 Shanghai and help advance wine culture in China.

There will also be 10-15 wine "tastings" a day, he said, as well as a "disappearing wall" of wine bottles by the latticed pavilion's mastermind, architect Jacques Ferrier.