Vignerons "en colere"

Some 2000 vignerons from the Aude demonstrated in Carcassonne to give notice that their industry has been severely hit in 2017. We reported below that harvests were down by about 20% due to frost in the spring and to some extent the summer drought and the vintners want to add unfair foreign competition to that. There have been several manifestations during the year, including thousands of litres of Spanish wine being poured away by militants.
No doubt little can be done about the weather to soothe the anger, apart from some compensation or insurance, and it remains to be seen whether the government could restrict foreign imports, given EU free trade rules.