'We're receiving hundreds of messages from people who want to buy our wine, but we have nothing left,' said one vintner.
In France, a wildfire scorched vineyards near the French Riviera for a week in late August, following an April frost that killed vines and cost the wine industry 2 billion euros in losses, the Associated Press reported.
"We're receiving hundreds of messages from people who want to buy our wine, but we have nothing left," Pierre Audemard, who had his wine stock as well as his equipment destroyed by the wildfire, told broadcaster France-Bleu. Rows of charred grapevines stand next to a vast expanse of steaming black vegetation devastated by the fire. The blaze forced some 10,000 people to evacuate around the Var region, not far from the famed coastal resort of Saint-Tropez.
The MDCV wine group, which owns several vineyards in the region affected, considers itself relatively lucky but is still facing losses.
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