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Bordeaux recovery boosts French wine yield

Thanks to a dry and warm September France’s wine production could reach 46.5 million hectolitres in 2014, a rise of 10% on last year.

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A report by the French agriculture ministry has predicted the 2014 vintage could reach 46.5 million hectolitres, up from 42.37 million last year, reaching its highest level in three years, reprots The Drinks Business.

The predicted boost follows two unusually small harvests in France caused largely by hail and grape rot, with a warm and dry September said to have largely rescued the 2014 vintage.

The Ministry said the prediction had been reduced from 46.93 million hectolitres a month ago due to grape damage in Alsace and Languedoc-Roussillon, the latter having suffered severe floods last month.

In Bordeaux production is predicted to rise by 52% to 6.01 million hectolitres, up from last year’s 3.97 million hectolitres.

Read more of this report from The Drinks Business.