(29 Jul 2025)
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ARCHIVE: Avize, France – 28 July 2020
1. Various of champagne bottle fountain overlooking Avize
2. Pan right of vineyard
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ARCHIVE: London – 3 May 2023
3. Various of waiter pouring champagne coupe at Searcys champagne bar
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Paris – 29 July 2025
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Antoine Chevalier, owner of Antoine Chevalier Champagne House:
“This implementation of the 15% tariff is obviously problematic for me because it affects the final price of Champagne. It impacts my importers, who will obviously have to pay more, and that creates uncertainty about future sales. For now, we find this rate extremely high.”
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ARCHIVE: Epernay, France – 15 October 2014
5. Close of champagne being poured
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ARCHIVE: Epernay, France – 31 December 2007
6. Various of champagne cellar
7. Close of grapes
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Paris – 29 July 2025
8. SOUNDBITE (French) Antoine Chevalier, owner of Antoine Chevalier Champagne House:
“For me, exports to the United States represent 25% of my business, so it’s obviously very significant. The feedback I’ve had since the previous announcement has mostly been about suspended orders. Now, suspension doesn’t mean cancellation, it means they’re taking a bit of time, waiting to see how things develop. There still seem to be some grey areas, even though the 15% tariff has been officially announced for the entire wine and spirit sector. So for now, that’s where we stand. We’re just waiting to see.”
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ARCHIVE: Villevenard, France – 6 December 2017
9. Close of man opening champagne bottle
10. Close of man pouring champagne
11. Close of champagne glasses
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Paris – 29 July 2025
12. SOUNDBITE (French) Antoine Chevalier, owner of Antoine Chevalier Champagne House:
“It’s worrying because Champagne is already a luxury product that requires a lot of work and attention. We’re already dealing with a high‑end product, so adding a tax that brings nothing extra to the finished bottle or to the consumer is clearly not welcome. It obviously means fewer consumers, mechanically even if the U.S. isn’t our only market but it’s definitely problematic.”
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ARCHIVE: Sant Sadurni d’Anoia, Spain – 11 December 2018
13. Various of sparkling wine maker checking aging process in cellar
14. Various of wine maker turning bottles of sparkling wine
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Paris – 29 July 2025
15. SOUNDBITE (French) Antoine Chevalier, owner of Antoine Chevalier Champagne House:
“I don’t believe that Americans, nor Donald Trump, really want to deprive themselves of our French gastronomy products whether it’s wine, cheese, and so on. So I find it hard to imagine, but if it were to happen… and if things were to get tougher, well, that’s just how it is. We would then have to turn to our fellow importers in Europe or other third‑country markets like Japan, Korea, and so on. There are plenty of other markets out there.”
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ARCHIVE: Epernay, France – 31 December 2007
16. Pan right of champagne cellar
17. Various of workers collecting bottles
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Paris – 29 July 2025
18. SOUNDBITE (French) Antoine Chevalier, owner of Antoine Chevalier Champagne House:
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ARCHIVE: Cuchery, France – 17 March 2025
19. Various aerials of vineyard ++MUTE++
20. Aerial of Cuchery ++MUTE++
21. Wide of champagne bottle statue outside Cuchery
STORYLINE:
Antoine Chevalier, owner of the Antoine Chevalier Champagne House, said the tariff would raise prices and unsettle importers.
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