The Daily Dispatch: October 8, 1863., [Electronic resource]

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Heavy damages.

--A rather curious trial, interesting to consumers of champagne, has just come off before the tribunal of correctional police at Rheims. Two wine merchants and a cooper were accused of having counterfeited the mark of the house of Veuve Clicquot, Ponsandin, and placed it on wines of their own, which they sold as proceeding from the Clicquot cellars, and which, it appears, has been seized in the Victoria Docks in consequence of legal proceedings taken at heavy cost by the house of Clicquot, a name rendered famous by its application by certain English jokers to the late King of Prussia. The Rheims tribunal has sentenced the three offenders to pay £1,200 damages; also, to replace, by unmarked corks, those in the bottles now in the docks, to bear all the charges the complainants can prove they have incurred in the prosecution, and finally to advertise the sentence in the Times, the Moniteur, the Gazette des Tribunaux, and four other French papers. Moreover, for fraud, under the penal code, two of the offenders are sentenced to fines and eighteen months imprisonment, and the third to four months in prison, and the wines bearing the false marks are ordered to be confiscated.