Painfully, Europeans Ponder Cutback in Wine Industry
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Efforts to shore up the European wine industry by tearing out vineyards have set the stage for a debate as Europeans contemplate the cost of their love affair with the grape.
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PARIS  - Winegrowers in northeast France are puzzled over the mysterious destruction of large swaths of two vineyards in Alsace, a region along the German border known for full-bodied white wines.
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An attempt to make European wines more competitive worldwide is pitting the EU's top farm bureaucrat against winemakers who claim the reforms will stain the soul of their centuries-old craft.
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French doctors appealed on Monday to President Jacques Chirac to intervene and stop changes in wine advertising rules the physicians fear will lead to more deaths from alcohol-related illnesses and drunk ...
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A wine glut in the US has hit profits at beer and wine company Foster&#39;s during the first half of 2004. The Australian company has been looking to expand its wine business but suffered as a surplus of US grapes forced many producers to cut prices.
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Wine is less a beverage than an elixir of life in France, but the country's vintners say they're vexed by a problem that threatens their livelihood &#151; too much of a good thing and not enough people drinking it.
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Globalization and low taxes have created a golden age of inexpensive wine and liquor, but cheap booze comes at a heavy societal cost.
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French wine exports are continuing to shrink this year, confirming a six-year trend that has brought gloom to the sector, experts and industry bodies say.
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The Supreme Court is considering whether states may bar people from buying wine directly from out-of-state suppliers, a big-money question that could lead to sweeping changes in how alcoholic beverages are regulated and sold.
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Some of the finest noses in the French wine world are snorting into their decanters over a new film which claims they are complicit in the American-led homogenisation of world tastes and the steady destruction of France's centuries-old tradition of "terroir."
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If you equate Europe with stodginess, it's time to take another look.
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Pressure mounted to cut import duties on wine and spirits after the United States said it had joined the European Union in asking the World Trade Organization to intervene in the matter. Mariann Fischer Boel, the agriculture commissioner for the union, who was in New Delhi, was set to meet the Indian commerce minister, Kamal Nath, to press the issue. On Tuesday, the United States trade representative, Susan C. Schwab, said Washington had filed a complaint with the W.T.O. on the tariffs, which are seen abroad as unfair trade barriers. Indiaâs basic import duties of 100 percent on wine and 150 percent on spirits are within the W.T.O. limits, but federal surcharges and state-level taxes take the tariff up to 540 percent in some cases.
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E.U. subsidies have spurred big surpluses and made the continent uncompetitive with "New World" wines. Now reform is afoot
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Guns and balaclavas appear in France's vineyards as despairing growers struggle for a living price for their wine.
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As Western Europeans head back to the office after their customary monthlong August vacations, they're finding more than just overflowing in-boxes. Their much-cherished short workweeks are under attack.
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As European companies grapple with the impact of the rising euro on sales and exports, another less obvious problem is looming: the switch to new accounting standards that threaten to cause headaches for an array of businesses.
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Although Americans vacationing in Europe may be howling over higher prices in hotels and restaurants, the adverse impact of the rapidly declining US dollar has fallen mainly on foreigners, at least so far.