1,200 winegrowers from Gironde have filed applications to uproot their vines in exchange for compensation. “We are compensated 6,000 euros per hectare.
It’s my only option to get out of this,” confides Bernard Daraignes, following the jaw of the excavator extracting the vine stocks. In Bordeaux, the heartbreak of the uprooting of vines: “The landscape will change radically…” Profitability in free fall, climate change...