Crisis distillation of wine has mixed success

The EU allocated a special budget for distilling excess wine: the wine producers had to apply to have their wines distilled and would then be paid for the wine. In France the applications have by far not reached the required volumes (a third of the volume is missing). In Spain, on the other hand, there has been so much applications so the volume has exceeded the quota with a quarter. (Photo: a mobile distillation unit in Champagne.)