Languedoc-Roussillon
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- April 20, 2017
Frustration over cheap Spanish imports spilled into supermarket aisles in southern France after local winemakers wrecked bag-in-box wines brought across the border. Winemakers staged a protest by destroying Spanish bag-in-box wines at a branch of the Carrefour supermarket near to Montpellier in France’s Languedoc-Roussillon region, according to French media reports. Read more at Angry French […]
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- January 25, 2017
Tension is rising in southern France after winemakers staged a day of action, emptying at least one tanker of Spanish wine and blocking a depot used by the wine subsidiary of Carrefour supermarket. Sixty protesters block supermarket-owned depot near Nîmes They then attacked a tanker suspected of carrying Spanish wine […]