The Growing French Crisis in Their Vineyards

The Existential Crisis of Bordeaux's Small Grapegrowers

Protesters carried dead vines through the streets of Bordeaux, pleading for help as shrinking wine consumption in France and changes in ...

French winemakers face devastation after worst weather in 30 years

One of France's biggest export industries is facing a devastating blow after an unusually severe frost earlier this month damaged vineyards ...

Why do France's winemakers want to destroy their vineyards?

Red wine consumption is at an all-time low in France. The government and winemakers have come up with a destructive solution to the problem of ...

France set to destroy enough wine to fill over 100 Olympic-sized ...

France is experiencing a wine crisis. Consumption of the beverage has plummeted significantly in the country since its peak in 1926, when the ...

Bordeaux: Crisis or Opportunity? - Meininger's International

As the largest region in France, with a strong focus on red wine, Bordeaux is at the center of the crisis. For some winemakers, the question of ...

Bordeaux Bloodbath? Grubbing Up Deja Vu - The Wine Economist

You've probably seen the news from Europe. The headline on Politico read, "Bordeaux bloodbath! France pays winemakers to dig up vines.

The winners and losers of the wine industry from climate crisis

Your support helps us to tell the story · Some of the world's most prized wine regions face being wiped out in the coming decades due to impacts ...

Bordeaux bloodbath! France pays winemakers to dig up vines

Climate change is playing a dual role in the Bordeaux crisis. On the one hand, longer summers and warmer temperatures are driving consumer ...

France's Destruction of Surplus Wine Hints at Deeper Crisis

France just spent 200 million euros destroying surplus wine, and it's not the only wine region facing a crisis. What explains all this bad ...

FRANCE''S NINETEENTH CENTURY WINE CRISIS: The impact on ...

Innocuous in its original ecology, phylloxera proved very destructive for French vineyards by sucking the sap of the vines. Between 1863 and 1890, it destroyed ...

France has too much wine. It's paying millions to destroy the leftovers.

While this year's subsidy is getting a lot of attention, French government intervention is not a new phenomenon, according to Elizabeth Carter, ...

France offers €80 million lifeline for winegrowers and farmers

The move, revealed by the country's agriculture ministry, comes in response to what has been described as a “profound crisis” affecting vineyard ...

How Climate Change Is Affecting France's Wine Industry | TIME

Climate change is threatening France's wine industry. But wine makers are experimenting with new methods to protect the beloved cultural ...

Extreme weather and falling demand are pushing wineries into the red

A worker harvesting grapes in a vineyard in Burgundy, France, in September. The supply of French wine has exceeded waning demand in France and ...

Phylloxera in France - Wine History Tours

A Deep Dive into the Economic Impact of Phylloxera in France · Phylloxera and the French Wine Industry · The Economic Impacts of the Crisis · ON ...

“Vineyards need to be pulled in France” - Vitisphere

There is no denying that we will be distilling 200 million euros worth of wine but with the current decline in wine consumption, worsened by ...

French vineyards want payout to ditch vines and wines as trade ...

The Bordeaux producers are proposing to pull up 10% of their vineyards , amounting to about 15,000 hectares (37,000 acres). They want the ...

The Bordeaux region, in crisis, calls for help to pull out vines

The French wine region of Bordeaux is in crisis, as winegrowers are asking for financial compensation to destroy their vines and change ...

Great French Wine Blight - Wikipedia

The Great French Wine Blight was a severe blight of the mid-19th century that destroyed many of the vineyards in France and laid waste to the wine industry.

Crisis-struck Bordeaux wine-growers to uproot 10% of vines

Libourne, France, Feb 25 (EFE).- Crisis-struck Bordeaux wine growers have asked the French government for financial aid to uproot vines in the ...