France mulls cure to wine sector's hangover
October 20, 2004
By France.com
France’s beleaguered wine industry is giving the government a headache.
Paris is torn between promoting public health and supporting French wine, which has been hit hard by competition from “New World” rivals such as Australia and South Africa and become less fashionable at home.
Less than a week after deputies from the National Assembly lower house proposed wine adverts should be more colourful to boost sales, senators from the upper house say they want bottles to have labels warning pregnant women of the dangers of alcohol.
Opposition Socialist deputy Jean-Marie Le Guen said the conservative government’s policies were incoherent.
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