"A harvest in the cellar, a harvest in the bank ... It's been a long time since that no longer exists ..."
In the opinion of Jérôme Despey, winegrower in the Hérault and secretary general of the FNSEA agricultural union, after the Covid crisis and the American taxes on French wine exports in 2020, the frost and diseases of the vines this summer have seriously undermined the financial resilience of French winegrowers. Even if the profession does not yet venture to give a precise assessment, the French wine growers are moving towards a
“historically low”
harvest
,
according to the Minister of Agriculture, where the fruit of the tricolor vine should not exceed 33 million hectoliters. Either below the dark years of 1991 and 2017.
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Even if the Covid crisis and the Trump taxes, by closing restaurants and the American market, have inflated stocks in French cellars, volumes could be lacking.
Not for wines for laying down or for grands crus, the process of which
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