While the question of potential uprooting of vines, a first for twenty years, is rising in vineyards such as Bordeaux or Alsace, the sector wants to do everything to avoid arriving at such extremes. "Destroying the production tool is the assurance of being too short when the market starts up again" , is this how one breathes at the head of the interprofession of a large region. Besides distillation or private storage aid, emergency solutions during short-term overproduction, the basins have other avenues to rebalance the market on a sustainable basis.
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"The Covid and Trump taxes are indicative of a global need to adapt the vineyard, both in terms of volume and value for money," said Jérôme Agostini, director of the National Committee of Wine Interprofessions (CNIV). First axis: play on the offer. Like what Champagne successfully does (5% of volumes), the committee of which sets the maximum yield each year that can be picked per hectare.
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