Battle over Bordeaux motorway
SOME of the leading wine producers in the Bordeaux region have launched a campaign to block a new motorway that could cut through world famous vineyards.
There are five proposed routes that would either cut through the Margaux appellation area, or bypass it and cut it off, also bridges across the Gironde or the Garonne and the Dordogne rivers would be built.
Wine producers in the region have launched a website, Margaux Danger, to keep people up to date with developments and to generate signatures for an online petition against the motorway.
The producers say the motorway will impact upon the production of wine as well as the tourist industry in the region, and say the plans are an "intolerable assault on some of the most iconic examples of France's cultural heritage"
There are five proposed routes that would either cut through the Margaux appellation area, or bypass it and cut it off, also bridges across the Gironde or the Garonne and the Dordogne rivers would be built.
Wine producers in the region have launched a website, Margaux Danger, to keep people up to date with developments and to generate signatures for an online petition against the motorway.
The producers say the motorway will impact upon the production of wine as well as the tourist industry in the region, and say the plans are an "intolerable assault on some of the most iconic examples of France's cultural heritage"
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