The makers of Jack Daniel's whiskey have launched legal action against one of France's most celebrated chateaux, Chambord, in a bid to stop it using its name on wine it plans to produce. The Kentucky-based Brown-Forman Corporation is challenging the right of the 16th-century Loire Valley chateau to call its wine "Chambord" on the grounds that the US firm has produced a liqueur of the same name for more than a decade. The chateau set up a vineyard three years ago as part of efforts to become self-funding. It is to produce its first "Clos de Chambord" and "IGP Chambord" wines this autumn. Jean d'Haussonville, director of the chateau built by King Francis I, is outraged at the American company's action. "It is unimaginable that a liqueur could prevent us from using the brand of our national heritage for our own products," he said. Chambord liqueur, made from raspberries, is modelled on a beverage produced in the Loire Valley in the 17th century. The "royal liqueur" is now made at Cour-...
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