Europe's wine industry faces sweeping changes over the next few years as producers are offered big cash incentives to dig up their vines and finally drain the EU's lakes of surplus wine.
Apart from fending off competition from New World wines by focusing more on quality than quantity, the idea is to divert subsidies to discourage unwanted surpluses that usually end up being distilled into industrial alcohol or biofuel.
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