The Dordogne will lose vines in the coming months. 1,100 hectares out of the 9,500 AOP in Bergeracois will be uprootedor approximately 12% of the total area. “We expected it”, explains Laurence Rival, president of the Bergerac and Duras Wine Federation.
137 winegrowers submitted a file
137 Dordogne winegrowers submitted requests to respond to the plan to uproot 30,000 hectares launched by the State at the national level to deal with the overproduction of wine in France and the drop in consumption. The European Union has agreed to compensate wine growers up to 120 million euros for 30,000 hectares uprooted, i.e. compensation of 4,000 euros per hectare for wine growers.
More than 5,400 requests were made nationally for a total of 27,500 hectares. In Bergeracois, out of the 137 files, according to Laurence Rival, president of the Bergerac and Duras Wine Federation, “il Half of them stop completely because the winegrowers are reaching retirement age or not. The other part is wine growers who tear out certain vines because they are in the process of restructuring and because they do not make money on bulk wine, they are only going to keep the vines. which they enhance with bottled wine to make it profitable.”
Wine consumption continues to decline
The president of the FVBD is worried about the situation, “we have never seen a crisis like this but it is at the national level, because the de-consumption of wine does not stop. We hope to reach a plateau, but each quarter it decreases. We hope that this will help something thing”.
This uprooting plan should make it possible to restructure the vineyard in order to enable wine growers to get by, particularly after numerous climatic hazards in recent years. This also allows winegrowers who stop and cannot find a buyer to transform the hectares of vines uprooted into “bare land to become cereal land or meadows”.
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