French winemakers fret over Teetotal Sarkozy
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BORDEAUX, France  - French winemakers are disappointed that President Nicolas Sarkozy is teetotal and fear his clean-living image gives the wrong impression of France.
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PARIS  - The French government announced more than &#36;91 million US in aid Monday for the country's struggling wine industry, hit by falling consumption at home and increased competition in export markets.
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French farmers on Wednesday threatened widespread protests next week if the government failed to find a solution to soaring fuel costs they say have cut into farm revenues.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy is keeping his country's business elite waiting.
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PARIS  - The goal, senators suggested, was to encourage the French to drink better wine, not more. How best to accomplish that? By slightly relaxing France's restrictions on wine ads, allowing vintners to vaunt the smell, taste and colour of their vintages.
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When French winemaker Laurent Metge-Toppin first saw the floating vineyards of Thailand's Chao Phraya river delta, he knew he would struggle to make a wine worthy of his vintner ancestors in the Cotes du Rhone.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy has  suffered a seven-point drop in his approval ratings, mainly  because of worries over the economy, according to an opinion  poll published in the newspaper Le Parisien on Sunday.
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Wine ads in France &#151; once restricted to little more than a photograph of the bottle &#151; would be able to boast about the smell, taste and color of vintages under a compromise approved by France's upper house of parliament.
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PARIS  - Winegrowers in northeast France are puzzling over the 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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Nicolas Sarkozy's tough-guy image is damaged by rising crime in the Banlieue
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy's approval rating has slid to its lowest point in his nine months in office, a poll commissioned by l'Express magazine showed on Tuesday, prompting the weekly to speak of a "toboggan effect".
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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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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: too much of a good thing and not enough people drinking it.
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The bucolic valleys that produce South Africa's best wines are also producing tension, with white farmers accused of forcing black workers from their homes.
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President Nicolas Sarkozyâs romance with a singer has fueled criticism that he is ignoring the country.
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In the latest case of French government intervention in the corporate arena, Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy is to meet this week with the group that bottles Perrier mineral water, currently locked in a labor ...
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Forget about things improving with age. Some officials here are saying French wine needs to be made more appealing to their not-so-vintage countrymen.