Wine crisis as nearly 8,000 hectares earmarked for grubbing up in Bordeaux, France

Bordeaux winegrowers have requested the uprooting of around 8,000 hectares of vines with more than 1,200 applications submitted as part of an aid plan for the first French AOC vineyard, the Ministry of Agriculture announced on Friday. This system, worth a total of 57 million euros, announced in June and approved in November by the European Commission, offers a bonus of 6,000 euros per hectare uprooted to fight against flavescence ore, a disease which threatens vines. left abandoned, “by de-densifying the vineyard”. The program co-financed by the State and the inter-professional sector, which can reach 9,500 hectares over two years, should also make it possible to reduce excess production. The counter will reopen in the fall of 2024 for the remaining 1,500 hectares. In July, 1,085 pre-applications had been submitted with a view to extracting 9,251 hectares. “We are relatively close,” Stéphane Gabard, president of the Syndicate of AOC Bordeaux and Bordeaux Supérieur, told AFP. “This ...