2023-10-13 10:11:52
A schedule pushed back by around two months. The launch of the subsidized plan for the sanitary uprooting of vines in Bordeaux is delayed pending a green light from the European Commission, the inter-profession and the prefecture of Gironde announced on Thursday, where more than a thousand wine growers in difficulty are candidates.
The start of the uprooting of eligible vines could begin “during autumn-winter”, after a “final submission of the uprooting request” during the month of “November”, according to a revised calendar unveiled by the prefecture and the Interprofessional Council Bordeaux wine (CIVB). Initially, the final submission of applications was planned for “September”, after the harvest.
Some 1,085 pre-applications, representing 20% of wine growers in Gironde, had been submitted with a view to extracting 9,251 hectares, according to figures from the CIVB.
A plan of 57 million euros
“Exchanges are underway between the services of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty and those of the Commission in order to provide all the useful details on the deployment of this aspect of the system financed by the State”, specify the prefecture and the inter-profession. This co-finances with the State and the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region a plan of 57 million euros, which offers a bonus of 6,000 euros per hectare removed.
“These exchanges are part of a classic pattern of notification of State aid by a Member State (…). The State and the CIVB are mobilized for the fastest possible implementation of the system,” we can read in a press release.
“This postponement creates despair”
The largest AOC vineyard in France – 110,000 hectares cultivated – is suffering severely from the collapse of prices, the closure of export markets and overproduction estimated at one million hectoliters. Without forgetting less wine consumption.
“This postponement creates despair but it does not create complicated situations because the harvesting is often done in October or November, in a non-vegetative period, and in all cases the payments (of the premium) would not have taken place before January or February,” estimates Stéphane Gabard, president of the AOC Bordeaux and Bordeaux Supérieur union.
“The risk is that by reducing the (uprooting) period, will we have enough companies capable of uprooting the vines? We need specialists,” argued this winegrower established in Galgon in Libourne.
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