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The wine lake refers to the continuing surplus of wine
Wine

Wine is an alcoholic beverage often made of fermentation grape juice. The natural chemical balance of grapes is such that they can ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes or other nutrients....
 over demand (glut) produced in 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....
. A major contributor to that glut is the Languedoc-Roussillon
Languedoc-Roussillon

Languedoc-Roussillon is one of the 26 Regions of France of France. It comprises five departments of France, and borders the other French regions of Provence-Alpes-C?te d'Azur, Rh?ne-Alpes, Auvergne , Midi-Pyr?n?es on the one side, and Spain, Andorra and the Mediterranean sea on the other side....
, which produces over one-third of the 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....
s grown in France. For the past several vintage
Vintage

Vintage, in wine-making, is the process of picking grapes and creating the finished product. A vintage wine is one made from grapes that were all, or primarily, grown and harvested in a single specified year....
s, European countries have been producing 1.7 billion more bottles of wine than they sell.

Hundreds of millions of bottles of wine are turned into industrial alcohol every year, a practice that is sometimes described as "emergency distillation".

Another attempted remedy is 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....
: an initiative introduced in 2005 by ONIVINS, the French vintners association, designed to reduce France's wine glut and improve sales.






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The wine lake refers to the continuing surplus of wine
Wine

Wine is an alcoholic beverage often made of fermentation grape juice. The natural chemical balance of grapes is such that they can ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes or other nutrients....
 over demand (glut) produced in 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....
. A major contributor to that glut is the Languedoc-Roussillon
Languedoc-Roussillon

Languedoc-Roussillon is one of the 26 Regions of France of France. It comprises five departments of France, and borders the other French regions of Provence-Alpes-C?te d'Azur, Rh?ne-Alpes, Auvergne , Midi-Pyr?n?es on the one side, and Spain, Andorra and the Mediterranean sea on the other side....
, which produces over one-third of the 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....
s grown in France. For the past several vintage
Vintage

Vintage, in wine-making, is the process of picking grapes and creating the finished product. A vintage wine is one made from grapes that were all, or primarily, grown and harvested in a single specified year....
s, European countries have been producing 1.7 billion more bottles of wine than they sell.

Hundreds of millions of bottles of wine are turned into industrial alcohol every year, a practice that is sometimes described as "emergency distillation".

Another attempted remedy is 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....
: an initiative introduced in 2005 by ONIVINS, the French vintners association, designed to reduce France's wine glut and improve sales. Part of the plan is to uproot 17,000 hectares of the 124,000 hectares of vineyards in Bordeaux
Bordeaux

is a Port city on the Garonne in southwest France, with one million inhabitants in its aire urbaine at a 2008 estimate. It is the Capital of the Aquitaine regions of France, as well as the Prefectures in France of the Gironde Departments of France....
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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 ....
  • Mariann Fischer Boel
    Mariann Fischer Boel

    Mariann Fischer Boel is a Denmark politician, currently serving as European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development. A member of the party Left , she had previously been minister of agriculture and foods since 2002, in the government of Anders Fogh Rasmussen....


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