The fruit is immediately crushed to make juice, which is put into tanks, then barrels to start the wine production process. PHOTOS: Drought forces earliest harvest ever in French wine country The ...

“We can predict, using modeling, the harvest dates in the future,” he says. “We can say that in 2050, in many French wine regions, the harvest will occur around about the 15th of ...

Saint-Méard-de-Gurçon (France) (AFP) – Swapping their state-enforced veils for T-shirts reading "life" and "liberty", a group of Iranian women who have fled to France now help make wine that ...

All types of French wine are affected by the expected lower harvest, with top-name regions like Burgundy, Beaujolais and Champagne especially hard hit. Friday's forecast was a significant downward ...

The revised forecast, based on the latest harvest results, was 17% below the five-year average of 44.2 million hectolitres. A hectolitre is the equivalent of 100 litres, or 133 standard wine bottles.

A fall in demand for French wines, a more competitive market and ... Harvesters work in a vineyard during the grape harvest of the "Clos Saint Jacques," a ... More Gevrey-Chambertin Burgundy ...

The harvest aims to produce the white wine from the famous Pessac-Léognan ... As warmer winters cause grape vines to produce early buds, French vintners worry that frost will disrupt the growing ...

And it is in the vineyard of Makaremi's brother Masrour that the young women are now bringing in the harvest ... wine -- a vintage set to be dubbed Cyrus after the founder of the Persian Empire -- in ...