It turns on again protest winemaker French to import the Spanish wine: The trucks were attacked at the border. Thousands of bottles destroyed. Streams of wine spilled onto the asphalt.
The protest of French winemakers
As has happened in the past, the Border between Spain and France experienced the revolt of French winemakers against the import of Iberian wines.
Around 400 of them organized a roadblock at the border crossing with Spain The Perthus to stop the trucks and destroy everything.
Spanish wines are average cheaper and less valuable from the French and represent particularly strong competition in the market segment Table wines.
The cheapest Spanish table wines sell for an average of 1 euro per pack (bottle or carton), compared to 3 euros per bottle for French wines.
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French winemakers, mainly from the Aude and Pyrénées Orientales departments, have done this opened the tankers’ taps and they have smashed the bottles. Hundreds were also destroyed Vegetable boxes.
Similar scenes already took place in 2016.
The downward competition from Spain and Morocco
The sector is in decline due to a mix of factors: the crazy climate, which has also influenced the spread of wine pests, competition from cheap wines especially from Spain and Morocco, the decline in demand and the general increase in the cost of wine production.
In 2022 Spain and Morocco They poured over 6.5 million hectoliters of wine onto the French tables.
Producer inquiries
“Under foreign competition […]“, the regulations imposed on us and the drought that threatens this year’s harvest, we ask the Minister of Agriculture to save us,” Pierre Hylari, president of the Young Farmers Association of the Pyrénées-Orientales, told Radio France Bleu.
Producers ask Tax relief And Subsidies, Loans facilitated e waterfall to survive periods of drought.
At the beginning of 2023, some Bordeaux winemakers called Compensation for extermination their own vineyards.
Another demonstration was called for November 25th.
Photo source: ANSA