- Wine lake
The wine lake refers to the continuing surplus of
wine over demand (glut) produced in theEuropean Union . A major contributor to that glut is theLanguedoc-Roussillon , which produces over one-third of thegrape s grown in France. For the past severalvintage s, European countries have been producing 1.7 billion more bottles of wine than they sell. [ M. Frank & D. Macle "Europe's Plan to Pull Up Vines Decried....Again" The Wine Spectator pg 15 Sept. 30th 2007 ]Hundreds of millions of bottles of wine are turned into
industrial alcohol every year, a practice that is sometimes described as "emergency distillation". [cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5253006.stm|title=Draining France's 'wine lake'|publisher=BBC News |date=2006-08-10|author=Caroline Wyatt|accessdate=2007-05-21]Another attempted remedy is
Plan Bordeaux : an initiative introduced in 2005 byONIVINS , the Frenchvintners association, designed to reduce France's wine glut and improve sales. Part of the plan is to uproot 17,000 hectares of the 124,000 hectares of vineyards inBordeaux .ee also
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