Word: vintageless
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Hardest hit when the new crop comes in will be the wine growers of the Midi, who supply most of the vintageless vin ordinaire that sells in France for about 250 a bottle (and is often mixed with Algerian wine to raise its alcoholic content). The South's worried farmers are demanding that the government bar all imports, even from Algeria, and buy up last year's surplus, perhaps to turn it into industrial alcohol. But Paris does not want to spend the money, and is treaty-bound to buy all the wine that independent Algeria can produce...
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