Georges Duboeuf: ‘Pope of Beaujolais’ wine dies aged 86
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Georges Duboeuf applied traditional methods of winemaking to his craft
Georges Duboeuf, one of the great wine merchants of the 20th Century, has died at the age of 86.
He was best known for turning the release a little-known French product – an ordinary red wine called Beaujolais Nouveau – into a global phenomenon.
By the 1980s, Mr Duboeuf’s…