(20 Apr 2017) Dozens of French vintners vented their anger over cheap competition from Spain on Thursday at a metro supermarket in Caissargues.
They smashed bottles and spilled wine across the parking lot of the supermarket, in what they hope is a burgeoning protest movement.
Police monitored the protest Thursday but did not intervene, nor did personnel at the Metro market near the southern French city of Nimes.
The vintners say their cellars are overstocked with rich reds that they can’t sell because of cut-price competition from across the nearby Spanish border.
The French vintners say the foreign wines are misleadingly labeled in French so many consumers don’t realize that they are imports.
Organised by the Gard region vintners’ union, the protest began at the Nimes region agricultural office before moving to the hypermarket.
The union held a similar protest last month and wants to continue the movement to press stores to stop stocking the imported wine.
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Thank god for brexit
In 2014 a study found pesticides in 90% of French wines. Anyone who drinks it is crazy!
French wine study:
Dibutyl phthalate (DBP), diethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP) and butyl benzyl phthalate (BBP) were the most frequently detected compounds in the wines analysed. While only 15% of the samples examined contained quantifiable concentrations (> 0.010 mg kg(-1)) of DEHP and BBP, 59% of the wines contained significant quantities of DBP, with a median value as high as 0.0587 mg kg(-1). Only 17% of the samples did not contain any detectable quantity of at least one of the phthalates and 19% contained only non-quantifiable traces. In the spirits analysed, DBP (median = 0.105 mg kg(-1)) and DEHP (median = 0.353 mg kg(-1)) were the substances measured at the highest concentrations, as well as the most frequently detected (90% of samples). BBP was present in 40% of the samples at an average concentration of 0.026 mg kg(-1). Di-isobutyl phthalate (DiBP), which is not permitted in contact with food, was found in 25% of the spirits tested. According to the specific migration limits (SML) for materials in contact with food, slightly more than 11% of the wines analysed were non-compliant, as they exceeded the SML for DBP (0.3 mg kg(-1)); just under 4% were close to the SML for DEHP. Concerning spirits, 19% of the samples analysed were considered non-compliant to the SML for DBP and nearly 7% were close to the SML for DEHP. The aged grape spirits analysed were often excessively contaminated with DiBP, which is not permitted to be used in contact with food (> 0.01 mg kg(-1)). A study of various materials frequently present in wineries revealed that a relatively large number of polymers sometimes contained high concentrations of phthalates. However, the epoxy resin coatings used on vats represented the major source of contamination.
this is why we left, french can't have their own way so nobody can sell their goods, and for those not old enough this is what they did to our sheep in the eighties, they burned them alive in the trucks while the eu looked on.
French wine is the worst European wine anyway. Italian is the best. They're just jealous as the French always are.