The Cost of Intervention: Why France is Paying to Undo a Crisis it Helped Create
The government once paid growers to plant more vines. Now it is paying them to tear them out.
It has become impossible to ignore the scenes coming out of Bordeaux this year. Growers watching tractors pull up entire parcels of healthy vines. Cellars filled with unsold wine, while bank credit quietly disappears. For the first time in living memory, some producers cannot sell their wine at any price. Rural mental health services report rising distr…
