The usually calm and nice Provence changes drastically in September. French Wine Volumes to Recover After Record-Early Grape Harvest. Thursday November 21 is Beaujolais Nouveau Day in France, a time to celebrate new French wine, fresh from the harvest. About 97% of all wine in the Gironde will be declared by growers this December as Bordeaux AOP, with the small amount that’s left being Vin de France or IGP. Date: 01/10/20; Bloomberg ; France is forecasting a recovery in wine production this year as volumes increase in all main growing areas, … The issues come after the US imposed sanctions on French wine in retaliation for the EU subsidies given to aviation giant Airbus, including a 25% tax on French (and German and Spanish) wine. After a downturn, Beaujolais wine is undergoing a resurgence (in … Soon the air will be filled with the sweet aroma of the grapes and farmers on tractors will be readying their harvest … Every year on the third Thursday of November, at exactly 12:01 a.m., the French release their celebrated first wine of the harvest — the crisp and fruity Beaujolais Nouveau. Confinement due to Covid-19 - first in China, and then in Europe and worldwide - also significantly affected sales worldwide, from the end of 2019 … The OIV estimated on 31 October that 2019 overall French wine … Farmers get to work because the wine grape has finally matured and it's time for the harvest.