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Eight million bottles' worth of Champagne grapes wiped out by freak hailstorms
hampagne has become the latest French wine growing region to feel the wrath of the heavens after freakishly violent hail storms wiped out the equivalent of eight million bottles of grapes and roughly €125 million (£110m) of fizz. The extent of the damage emerged barely a week after hailstones “the size of pigeons’ eggs” devastated thousands of acres of prime vineyards in Bordeaux, prompting the French government to promise support for winegrowers, some of whom have lost their entire crop.
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This must indeed be hard for those who are growing those grapes. The article did a good job with researching actual numbers, but one thing where I felt the journalism could have been improved: nowhere in the article was there any mention of weather insurance and its impact. Even if many growers did not have weather insurance, that in itself would have been helpful for readers to know. But the article did not even consider that very relevant point.