wine lake

Butter mountains, wine lakes and school programmes are not the way forward, however.

What on earth would happen to Europe's wine lake?

The Germans stayed and got drunk at the "wine lake" for three days.

Europe has had its butter mountain and wine lake.

For years, it only produced plonk to fill the European wine lake.

Perhaps some portion of that ever-deepening French wine lake will suddenly seem more desirable.

The result has been a continuing wine glut, often called the wine lake.

Alas, as I am now in a position to report, so is newschat, that wine lake of the airwaves.

Overproduction in recent years has led to this grape being a substantial contributor to the European wine lake problem.

At about 2.5m bottles annually, this remains a mere drop in the European Union’s wine lake.

THERE has been much talk in recent years about something called "the wine lake."

Perhaps the consequent appearance of a European 'wine lake' might have a bearing on the advice?!

We're paying for European butter mountains and wine lakes.'

Producers were left with a wine lake surplus that French authorities compelled them to reduce through mandatory distillation.

Their shouts and splashes resounded as they hit the roiling, rising surface of the wine lake.

The food is dumpling-based, substantial, and it would be kinder to draw a veil over the indigenous wine lake.

Languedoc is a significant producer of wine, and a major contributor to the surplus known as the "wine lake".

A large portion of the wine lake (European Union wine surplus) is converted to industrial ethanol.

As the wonderful Nama Wine Lake put it (again, with our emphasis):

We didn't actually swim in the European wine lake, but there's a proverbial pond in each supermarket and the choice, oh the choice!

THE European Union has known its share of surpluses: wine lakes, butter mountains and so on.

The policy's price controls and market interventions led to considerable overproduction, resulting in so-called 'butter mountains' and 'wine lakes'.

Unfortunately, this period saw the development of a surplus wine lake due, in part, to overproduction and competition from neighboring Germany and Hungary.

Critics have argued that the proposed changes to the subsidy system will herald a return to the EU's notorious "butter mountains" and "wine lakes."

Or read Nama Wine Lake posts passim.