thumb|Benoist Simmat '''Benoist Simmat''' is a French author and a journalist with ''Le Journal du Dimanche''.
Simmat has co-authored the 2008 book ''In Vino Satanas'' with the editor of ''La Revue du vin de France'', Denis Saverot, describing a French wine industry that is currently in a crisis and accusing the French government of subverting the French wine industry in favour of the pharmaceutical industry.<ref name=nr>Delion, Bruno, ''La Nouvelle Republique'' (October 9, 2010). [http://www.lanouvellerepublique.fr/vienne/ACTUALITE/24-Heures/Il-s-attaque-a-Robert-Parker-dans-une-bande-dessinee Il s'attaque à Robert Parker dans une bande-dessinée] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723182321/http://www.lanouvellerepublique.fr/vienne/ACTUALITE/24-Heures/Il-s-attaque-a-Robert-Parker-dans-une-bande-dessinee |date=2011-07-23 }} {{in lang|fr}}</ref><ref>Kevany, Spohie, wine-business-international.com (October 10, 2008). [http://www.wine-business-international.com/197-bmV3c19pZD0xNjY4--en-print_vorlage_news.html French government accused of preferring pills to wine] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718062315/http://www.wine-business-international.com/197-bmV3c19pZD0xNjY4--en-print_vorlage_news.html |date=2011-07-18 }}</ref>
In 2010 he wrote a ''bande dessinée'' comic book illustrated by Philippe Bercovici, satirising the American wine critic Robert M. Parker, Jr., titled ''Robert Parker: Les Sept Pêchés capiteux''.<ref name=so-v>Compadre, César, ''Sud Ouest'': La planète vin (October 8, 2010). [http://vin.blogs.sudouest.fr/archive/2010/10/08/parker-en-bande-dessinee.html Parker en bande dessinée] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101125085259/http://vin.blogs.sudouest.fr/archive/2010/10/08/parker-en-bande-dessinee.html |date=2010-11-25 }} {{in lang|fr}}</ref>
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