Too Much Good French Wine

by Nino Marchetti (RSS feed)
Jan 27th 2005 at 3:06PM

A surplus of fine French wines and tougher global competition are combining to force French winemakers into dumping millions of gallons of high quality vino, according to an Associated Press story. The vintners, it seems, are seeking permission from government officials to boil down 267 million bottles of the good stuff into industrial grade alcohol so they can recoup some of their financial losses.