An over-supply of non-premium grapes is causing increasing concern in Bordeaux.
At least 5,500 hectares of vines may still need to be uprooted in Bordeaux by 600 struggling wine grape growers, officials say.
"We are losing more consumers than hectares today," said Jean-Samuel Eynard, president of the Gironde Chamber of Agriculture,
"If things don't improve, it will continue and continue," he was reported as saying by wine industry news hub Vitisphere.
Discussions continue in Bordeaux as to how many hectares of vines would need to be uprooted to return to a structural commercial balance that would allow wine prices to rise.
Bernard Farges, president of the regional wine council the CIVB (Bordeaux Wine Interprofessional Council), this week emphasised the problems facing the industry.
"The headwinds are piling up," he said. "Liquidations, restructurings, lost jobs, bled-dry businesses, a deteriorating economic fabric, and impoverished villages."
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