As wildfires rip through southern France's Aude region, winemakers and farmers are blaming their rapid spread on the loss of ...

PARIS – France cut its projection for the 2024 wine crop on Oct 8 following the rainiest September in 25 years, with the year now forecast to be among the worst recent vintages in prized ...

In May, France confiscated nine châteaux in Bordeaux worth about €35.5 million (£30 million) from a Chinese tycoon who was convicted of money laundering and embezzlement of Chinese public funds.

Vineyard owners have been offered as much as €4,000 per hectare they allow the government to uproot. Those who accept the offers aren’t allowed replant vines on the same land until at least 2029. Wine ...

France, the world’s top wine producer, has secured €120 million ($132 million) in European Union funding to uproot millions of vines as global demand declines.

Harvesters work in a vineyard during the grape harvest of the "Clos Saint Jacques," a Gevrey-Chambertin Burgundy great vintage wine, at the Armand Rousseau wine estate on September 12, 2017.

Jonny Walfisz September 20, 2024 at 6:00 AM France to pay €120 million to uproot 30,000 hectares of vineyards ...

Wine consumption in France has been in freefall for multiple decades, dropping by 70% in the last 60 years. The average French citizen drank 120 litres of wine a year in the 1960s.