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French government to turn wine surplus into industrial alcohol

Wine aging in a cellar in the south of France. © Agnieszka Kumor / RFI

France plans to spend millions of euros to turn its surplus wine into industrial alcohol for pharmaceutical and cosmetic use in an effort to deal with overproduction, the agriculture ministry said this week.

The world's second-largest wine producer after Italy, France has long been known as a nation of wine aficionados.

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