Champagne Suffers Worst Season In Decades -- The Telegraph
Champagne is suffering its worst grape growing season in decades due to an "unprecedented" blight of frost, hail and disease, leading experts to warn that prospects for the coming harvest look increasingly dim.
Weather conditions coupled with the ravages of mildew have made Champagne growers' life hell in recent months; cold snaps, freak hailstorms, unrelenting rain and grape rot are expected to cut yields in the famed appellation by a third.
"This year has been unprecedented," said Dominique Moncomble, director of technical services at the CIVC, the Champagne wine board. "We have been accumulating problems: we are battling the elements and disease."
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My Comment: Hint .... prices are going to go up.
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