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April will be a month of sleepless nights for growers in France. Severe frost used to occur maybe 2x in a decade, but in recent years, it's become the norm.

French fruit growers and winemakers are warning that the majority of their harvest this year has been lost to this weeks frost. "No region has been spared: beets, rape, barley, vines fruit trees ... All the different kind of support must be activated urgently," the National Federation of Unions for Farmers (FNSEA) stressed. "Exceptional situations call for exceptional measures," it added. All through the week, farmers across France had tried to save their harvest from the frost by lighting fir...

French Winemakers Count Cost Of Worst Frost In Decades By Myriam LEMETAYER with AFP bureaus around France 04/09/21 AT 12:30 PM Desperate French farmers counted the cost Friday of several nights of frost this week which threaten to decimate grape harvests in some of the countrys best-known and prestigious wine-producing regions. The government is readying an emergency rescue package following rare freezing temperatures that could cause some of the most damage in decades to crops and vines ac...

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© Reuters: Pascal Rossignol Winemakers have been using fire to try and heat their vineyards to save them from frost.French winemakers have lit candles and burned bales of hay to try to protect their vineyards from sharp spring frosts, with the forecast of more cold nights this week raising fears of serious damage and lost production. Temperatures plunged as low as -5 degrees Celsius overnight in wine regions including Chablis, in Burgundy, and Bordeaux, which could hurt shoots already well-dev...

French winemakers light up fields to save the 2021 harvest from early season frosts Posted 6 updated 1 AprApril 2021 at 9:51pm Winemakers have been using fire to try and heat their vineyards to save them from frost. ( Print text only Cancel French winemakers have lit candles and burned bales of hay to try to protect their vineyards from sharp spring frosts, with the forecast of more cold nights this week raising fears of serious damage and lost production. Key points: French winemakers are c...

See all pages Matthew Jukes, a winner of the International Wine and Spirit Competition’s Communicator of the Year Trophy, picks out the best wines you should be tasting in 2021. He has been the MoneyWeek wine correspondent since 2006 and his four highly-acclaimed, annual wine reports, Bordeaux, Burgundy, Piemonte and 100 Best Australian Wines are published on his website matthewjukes.com. These reviews were originally published in MoneyWeek 1 An insanely delicious Kiwi interloper Tamra Kelly...

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6 special Valentine’s Day food and wine pairings, from oysters to truffles These celebratory take-home foods are good matches for sparkling wine, stouts and more. Haute Goats Chaource, made in Longview, bottom center, and Cowgirl Creamery Mt. Tam triple cream cheese, paired with a brut Champagne and a California sparkling wine(Ben Torres / Special Contributor) This Valentine’s Day, embrace staying home and enjoy luxurious foods with drinks to match. We wedded six celebratory take-home foods...

SHARE The first thing I was struck by when I began unpacking my Intersect by Lexus meal from its current restaurant-in-residence The Grey was the thoughtfulness of it all. I order dinner a lot these days, so I’ve become quite accustomed to the typical unpacking of food in takeout containers. But this wasn’t like that. It felt like unwrapping a present. All the food was labeled and looked gorgeous. And there were surprises—The Grey executive chef and partner Mashama Bailey and managing p...