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Assignment: France - trouble on the vine

How climate, finances and changing habits has brought French wine-makers to the brink. John Murphy travels to Bordeaux and Languedoc to find out the impact this is having.

Low harvests, economic and climate change and changing tastes have impacted French wine. The French wine harvest has dropped 18% in one year. For some famous French wine-making regions the reduction has been much more. A combination of factors, including climate, finances and changing drinking habits has brought some wine-makers to the brink. Thousands of hectares of vineyards are being pulled up. Others are struggling to survive. John Murphy travels to Bordeaux and Languedoc - the world鈥檚 biggest wine-making region - to find out what is going on with wine, France鈥檚 most symbolic of products.

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