French vitners fear flood of American ‘chateau’ wine

French fears of competition from a flood of U.S. wine bearing the word “chateau” on the label eased on Tuesday, after EU officials delayed a decision on a plan that has left Bordeaux winemakers seeing red.

The European Union’s wine management committee had been expected to approve an application to allow U.S. wine exports to Europe to use the word “chateau”, in what one EU official described as a “purely technical rubber-stamping exercise”.