How wildfires are scorching France’s wine industry
- As wildfires razed swaths of Western Europe this summer, wineries in the region have grown increasingly concerned about the fate of one of the area’s most important exports.
- In France, Europe’s largest wine exporter by far, some 739,000 hectares (1.8 million acres) of land is dedicated to vineyards that sprawl across wine-making regions such as Languedoc, Bordeaux and the Rhone Valley.
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- As wildfires razed swaths of Western Europe this summer, wineries in the region have grown increasingly concerned about the fate of one of the area’s most important exports.
- In France, Europe’s largest wine exporter by far, some 739,000 hectares (1.8 million acres) of land is dedicated to vineyards that sprawl across wine-making regions such as Languedoc, Bordeaux and the Rhone Valley.
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Sources: Al Jazeera