The official returns of the wine harvestof France for last year have been thus summarised :—The total yield of the vintage was 506,000,000ga1. ; it was 66,000,000ga1. in 1888, and 1,840,000,000ga1. in 1875, before the phylloxera disease set in. The difference eloquently expresses how the vine industry has been struck. In the department of Heraulb there were 497,500 acres in 1875 under vineyards, and in 1887 but 215,000, and that falling away represents very accurately the destruction caused by the vine bug. Of the 87 departments into which France is divided, all grow vines save eight. The department of Herault produces the most wine, 99,000,000 gal. per year ; the lowest yield is in the department of Crease, 26gal. One half of the total of the wine annually produced in France is derived from five departments— Herault, Aude, Gironde, Card, and Lers. If the English Government retaliates on the commercial boycotting of Portugal by lowering the wine duty—kept specially high to favour her—France, Italy, and Spain (and why not Australia ?) will benefit by the chastisement.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8268, 29 May 1890, Page 6
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