Small vineyard owner Mylène Bru has been catapulted onto the global wine scene thanks to a chance encounter with DJ Gilles Peterson and a brush with a celebrity.
Violence around southern France's vineyards could worsen next year
as more radical groups of winemakers emerge, angry at the region's
ongoing economic problems, one source has warned.
Plans to unite France's Languedoc wine region behind one
Appellation Contrôlée banner are set to be officially adopted at a
regional industry conference Friday.
French wine authorities have been criticised for creating three
more appellation contrôlée wine areas at a time when France is
trying to simplify its wine offering to consumers.
As French winemakers prepare for the annual rush to pull in this
year's grape harvest, anyone who does not own a Chateau is looking
cautiously ahead at another year of problems.
Americans will replace the French as the world's biggest wine
drinkers within three years, says new research, putting greater
pressure on France's shrinking share of wine exports.
One of southern France's biggest wine groups has pulled out of
negotiations over a battle plan for the country's ailing wine
sector, days after militant winemakers sent 1.5m litres of its wine
flowing into the street.
French wine makers, set for another round of protests, today met
with the country's agriculture minister in their campaign to get
more state aid to protect their industry from falling consumption,
foreign competition and overproduction,...
