Wine lake

Wine lake

The wine lake refers to the continuing surplus of wine over demand (glut) produced in the European Union. A major contributor to that glut is the Languedoc-Roussillon, which produces over one-third of the grapes grown in France. For the past several vintages, 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 by ONIVINS, the French vintners 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 in Bordeaux.

ee also

*French Wine
*Mariann Fischer Boel

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