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Mildew attacks French vineyards
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/mai.../eawine111.xml
Mildew attacks French vineyards By Henry Samuel in Paris Last Updated: 12:01am BST 11/07/2007 The 2007 vintages in Bordeaux and several other regions are threatened with disaster as grapevines are hit by a plague of mildew brought on by unseasonable weather conditions in France, wine officials warned yesterday. The harvest of vineyards from Bordeaux, Burgundy, Beaujolais, Champagne and the Loire have already been wiped out by the fungus, which is thriving due to unusually high rainfall and warm temperatures. Only Provence and the southwestern Languedoc-Roussillon region have been spared. In many cases, the harvest can only now be saved by consistently warm and dry conditions until September... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/mai.../eawine111.xml -- Lew |
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