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Transcript: Analysis: French wine makers struggle against sales slump and international competition
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- April 24, 2005
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LIANE HANSEN
Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR)
04-24-2005
Analysis: French wine makers struggle against sales slump and international competition
Host: LIANE HANSEN
Time: 1:00-2:00 PM
LIANE HANSEN, host:
Medoc, St. Emilion, Mouton Cadet--French wines whose very names make a sommelier's mouth water. But all is not well in the vineyards of France. This past Wednesday, police in the southern French town of Narbonne used tear gas to break up a demonstration by wine makers that had turned violent. Trouble has been fermenting in the French wine industry, and growers have been drowning in debt. Overproduction, underconsumption and competition from new wines around the world have soured the future ...
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