Mark Landler
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 30 Jul
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And there are a number of reasons for that.
Part of it is geographic.
A lot of the wine industry in Bordeaux is actually on the east side of the river, and the wildfires are on the west side of the river and indeed on the west side of the city of Bordeaux.
Okay, so it's got a buffer right now.
There is a buffer.
There is also a separate issue, which is that vineyards can often act as a fire break because the nature of vineyards are there's very little brush.
They're very well tended.
The soil around them tends to be fairly dry.
And as a result, they aren't a particularly great accelerant for fires.
So the long and short of it is no vineyard has erupted in flames during the course of these wildfires.
But that isn't the end of the problem for the wine industry, because what has happened is that the vineyards, like the city itself, have been covered with this very dark, smoky cloud.
And the big question, and it's an unresolved one so far, is whether the smoke will hang over the
the vines long enough to permeate into the grapes themselves?
And if it does do that, will it leave this vintage, when these grapes are harvested, will it leave this vintage with a kind of a smoky taste that could actually ruin the vintage, were it strong enough?
Yes, it would.
I mean, wine is one of the most important industries for Bordeaux.
It's also the industry that has put Bordeaux on the map.
Sure.
And even before these fires, the wine growers were facing a confluence of problems.
President Trump's tariffs on French wine, an issue that you know well, Zolan.
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