Taittinger intends to keep production relatively small, under 60,000 cases.
But "to maintain the consistency of our quality," he tries to keep production close to home.
The deals can take months, he says, so plane makers are always looking for ready cash to keep production going.
They also want to keep production high early in the next model year, which begins this fall, so as to supply fleet buyers.
Despite four dry years, California farmers have managed to keep production up, with $17.5 billion in sales last year.
Men can be assigned to produce a certain number of products or to keep production going indefinitely.
The company said the reductions would help keep production in Germany.
On the export side, there was the determination of Japanese manufacturers to keep production in the home country.
(Recent warm weather has kept production down so far this year).
We must have no more surpluses and keep production within limits.