Giant bottles in Bordeaux decorate the town to celebrate The Bordeaux Wine Fair Photo: AFP
Bordeaux Braces Itself For 'Le Binge Drinking' -- The Telegraph
Bordeaux's bi-annual wine festival is bracing itself for the British curse of "le binge drinking" with frogmen on standby to rescue drunken revellers from its Garonne River.
Since Thursday, France's wine capital has been celebrating the eighth edition of the festival along a 1.2-mile "wine road" on the banks of the Garonne. Around 500,000 are expected to turn up by Sunday to taste 80 appellations from Bordeaux and Aquitaine and attend nightly concerts and firework displays.
This year, however, authorities have taken extra, draconian security steps after a spate of alcohol-related drownings in the river running through its centre.
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My Comment: Wish I was there.
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