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	Podcast:		The Documentary
	Episode:		Assignment: France - Trouble on the vine
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:31:14
	Publish Date:		2024-12-03 01:30:00
	Description:		Low harvests, economic and climate batterings, changing tastes - is French wine in crisis? The French wine harvest has dropped 18% in one year. For some famous French wine-making regions the reduction has been much more. A combination of factors, including climate, finances and changing drinking habits has brought some wine-makers to the brink. Thousands of hectares of vineyards are being pulled up. Others are struggling to survive. For Assignment John Murphy travels to Bordeaux and Languedoc - the world’s biggest wine-making region - to find out what is going on with wine, France’s most symbolic of products.
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