Benoist Simmat is a French

France

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 author

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 and a journalist

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 with Le Journal du Dimanche

Le Journal du Dimanche

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Simmat has co-authored the 2008 book In Vino Satanas with the editor of La Revue du vin de France

La Revue du vin de France

La Revue du vin de France is a French magazine on wine published monthly. The publication has been described by Jancis Robinson as "France's only serious wine magazine"....

, Denis Saverot

Denis Saverot

Denis Saverot is a French author and the editor of the French wine publication La Revue du vin de France.In 2008 Saverot accused the French government of contempt for French culture, after a Paris court ruled that a Le Parisien article on Champagne was considered advertising subject to the Evin...

, describing a French wine

French wine

French wine is produced in several regions throughout France, in quantities between 50 and 60 million hectolitres per year, or 7–8 billion bottles. France has the world's second-largest total vineyard area, behind Spain, and is in the position of being the world's largest wine producer...

 industry that is currently in a crisis and accusing the French government of subverting the French wine industry in favour of the pharmaceutical industry.

In 2010 he wrote a bande dessinée comic book

Franco-Belgian comics

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 illustrated by Philippe Bercovici

Philippe Bercovici

Philippe Bercovici is a French comics artist of Franco-Belgian comics. Having illustrated a wide range of series, Bercovici is perhaps most known for Les Femmes en Blanc written by Cauvin, started in 1981...

, satirising

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 the American wine critic Robert M. Parker, Jr.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

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, titled Robert Parker: Les Sept Pêchés capiteux.