This is a new blow for winegrowers.
More than 10% of the Bordeaux vineyard, or 14,000 hectares, were affected by the two episodes of hail in June in Gironde, announced Friday the interprofession of Bordeaux wines.
“For the vines, it is 10,000 hectares on Monday evening storms and 4,000 on the storms of early June in the east of the department, it is considerable”, detailed Bernard Farges, president of the interprofessional council of Bordeaux wine. (CIVB) on France Bleu Gironde.
Economic danger for winegrowers
"It's a disaster for the houses, for the crops," adds the winemaker.
And even if "hail is insurable", "the insurance system is insufficient in France", he regretted.
On Monday, firefighters intervened 862 times in the north of the Gironde and in the agglomeration of Bordeaux, where hailstones the size of golf balls fell.
“Corn, vines, field vegetables: no production seems to have been spared” in northern Gironde, underlined the chamber of agriculture.
Localized but very significant damage was observed in the Médoc and Blayais vineyards, while the episode in early June affected the Sainte-Foy-la-Grande sector.
“The succession of claims leads winegrowers to be less well insured.
It is not their fault to have had several disasters but they can no longer be insured as they should, so they are helpless and in great economic danger”, underlined Bernard Farges.
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