The French government is allocating €200m (£171.6m) to destroy surplus wine and support producers.

It comes amid a cocktail of problems for the industry, including a falling demand for wine as more people drink craft beer.

Overproduction and the cost of living crisis are also hitting the industry.

Most of the €200m will be used to buy excess stock, with the alcohol sold for use in items such as hand sanitiser, cleaning products and perfume.

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    that sucks, wine preserves long time after all, they could save it as Canada’s maple syrup or US Cheese reserves

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      This is cheap wine which doesn’t age well.

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          I mean I know it’s a lot to ask, but if you read the article, or even just the context OP posted just below the headline, you may find something interesting like:

          Most of the €200m will be used to buy excess stock, with the alcohol sold for use in items such as hand sanitiser, cleaning products and perfume.

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            that would make the use of the word destroying on the title a little clickbaity wouldn’t it? reading the article should be to find additional details, not contradictions

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              It’s no longer wine. The wine is destroyed. They do not plan to breach the laws of physics, lol. It’s clickbaity but not crazy inaccurate.

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          That’s exactly what they’re doing, hence the mention of hand sanitizer and stuff.

          They could also turn it into Vodka but then the Slavs would have another temper tantrum.

      • As long as they don’t kill the yeast it will age in the bottle. Distilled drinks don’t age in the bottle because their aging is due to their interactions with the casks they are aged in rather than the yeast cleaning up the byproducts from the initial fermentation.