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Forced distillation

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Term (also crisis distillation) for a measure within the European Union to reduce the overproduction of wine. Surpluses are distilled at the expense of the EU. The distilled wine can then only be used for industrial purposes and as biofuel. In 2005, for example, this amounted to 3 million hectolitres of French wine and 2.6 million hectolitres of Italian wine (that is 5% of the total production volume of these two countries). The entire operation generated costs totalling 131 million euros.

This practice is not uncontroversial, because although this distillation provides temporary relief for producers, it does not take into account the fact that too much wine is produced in Europe. According to critics, it would be more expedient to reduce wine-growing areas through deforestation. This was also decided in the course of the EU wine market regulation that came into force in August 2009 (see wine law in the CMO section).

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