French grape harvest heading for historic low
Paris
KNOCKED off course by a cold spring snap, French wine production from Bordeaux to Alsace has dropped dramatically this year and could hit "a historic low", according to the agriculture ministry.
"At 37.6 million hectolitres, the 2017 harvest is set to come in 17 per cent lower than in 2016, and 16 per cent below the average of the past five years," the ministry's statistics bureau Agreste said on Saturday.
As such, the traditional August to October harvest of the world's second largest wine producer "could be historically low and inferior to that of 1991, which was also hit by severe frost". The cold wrought havoc notably in south-west France, with Bordeaux suffering along with neighbouring Charente, as well as Alsace and Jura in the north-east.…
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