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Vine pull schemes are programs whereby grape
Grape

File:Table grapes on white.jpgA grape is the non-Climacteric #In_botany fruit that grows on the Perennial plant and deciduous woody vines of the genus Vitis....
 growers receive a financial incentive to pull up their grape vine
Vine

A vine is any plant of genus Grape or, by extension, any similar climbing or trailing plant. The word, derived from Latin vinea, referred to the grape-bearing variety....
s, a process known as arrachage in French. A large program of the kind was initiated by the European Union
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
 (EU) in 1988 to reduce the wine lake
Wine lake

The wine lake refers to the continuing surplus of wine over demand produced in the European Union. A major contributor to that glut is the Languedoc-Roussillon, which produces over one-third of the grapes grown in France....
 glut from overproduction and declining demand. In the first five years of the program, growers, mainly in southern France and southern Italy, were paid to destroy 320,000 hectares or of vineyard
Vineyard

A vineyard is a plantation of grape-bearing vines, grown mainly for winemaking, but also raisins, table grapes and non-alcoholic grape juice. The science, practice and study of vineyard production is known as viticulture....
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Vine pull schemes are programs whereby grape
Grape

File:Table grapes on white.jpgA grape is the non-Climacteric #In_botany fruit that grows on the Perennial plant and deciduous woody vines of the genus Vitis....
 growers receive a financial incentive to pull up their grape vine
Vine

A vine is any plant of genus Grape or, by extension, any similar climbing or trailing plant. The word, derived from Latin vinea, referred to the grape-bearing variety....
s, a process known as arrachage in French. A large program of the kind was initiated by the European Union
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
 (EU) in 1988 to reduce the wine lake
Wine lake

The wine lake refers to the continuing surplus of wine over demand produced in the European Union. A major contributor to that glut is the Languedoc-Roussillon, which produces over one-third of the grapes grown in France....
 glut from overproduction and declining demand. In the first five years of the program, growers, mainly in southern France and southern Italy, were paid to destroy 320,000 hectares or of vineyard
Vineyard

A vineyard is a plantation of grape-bearing vines, grown mainly for winemaking, but also raisins, table grapes and non-alcoholic grape juice. The science, practice and study of vineyard production is known as viticulture....
. This was the equivalent to the entire vineyard area of the world’s fourth largest grower of grapes, the United States. The EU has recently resumed a vine pull scheme and Plan Bordeaux
Plan Bordeaux

Plan Bordeaux is an initiative introduced in 2005 by ONIVINS, the French vintners association, designed to reduce France's wine glut and improve sales....
 proposes additional vine pulls to increase prices for Bordeaux wine
Bordeaux wine

A Bordeaux wine is any wine produced in the Bordeaux region of France. Average vintages produce over 700 million bottles of Bordeaux wine, although in good vintages, this total can exceed over 900 million, ranging from large quantities of everyday table wine, to some of the most expensive and prestigious wines in the world....
. Many older growers have come to expect vine pull payments as they near retirement and view them as a retirement bonus.

Other vine pull schemes have been implemented in order to encourage destruction of unpopular indigenous varieties and their replacement with internationally popular varieties. This has been the case, for example, in Argentina, Chile, and New Zealand.

See also

  • French wine
    French wine

    French wine is produced in several regions throughout France, in quantities between 50 and 60 million hectolitres per year . France has the world's largest wine production ahead of Italian wine and the second-largest total vineyard area ....
  • Italian wine
    Italian wine

    Italian wine is wine produced in Italy, a country which is home to some of the oldest wine-producing regions in the world. Etruscans and Greeks settlers produced wine in the country long before the Ancient Rome started developing their own vineyards in the second century BC....
  • Chilean wine
    Chilean wine

    Chilean wine is wine made in the South American country of Chile. The region has a long viticulture history for a New World wine region dating to the 16th century when the Spain conquistadors brought Vitis vinifera vines with them as they Spanish colonization of the Americas....
  • New Zealand wine
    New Zealand wine

    New Zealand wine is largely produced in ten major list of wine-producing regions spanning latitudes 36? to 45? South and extending 1,600 km . They are, from north to south Northland Region, Auckland , Waikato/Bay of Plenty, Gisborne, Hawke's Bay, Wellington Region, Nelson, New Zealand, Marlborough, New Zealand, Canterbury, New Zealand and C...
  • Argentine wine
    Argentine wine

    Argentine wine, as with some aspects of Cuisine of Argentina, has its roots in Spain. During the Spanish colonization of the Americas, Juan Cedr?n brought the first vine cuttings to Santiago del Estero in 1557, and the cultivation of the grape and wine production stretched first to neighbouring regions, and then to other parts of the co...


Source

  • Robinson, Jancis (Ed.) The Oxford Companion to Wine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, second edition, 1999.