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One of the current challenges for French wine producers is finding enough glass bottles - and things have gotten so bad that some want the government to step in. Discussed by Edward Vellacott, representative of French rose brand, at the Paris wine fair on Monday, it became clear that the glass shortage is getting worse, while the reduced supply of bottles is making prices more and more expensive.
"The supply of bottles is getting tighter, and it's getting worse. Verallia and O-I are two French glass makers, and O-I will stop producing the standard burgundy-shaped, dead-leaf-colored, screw-cap bottle," said Edward Vellacott. The pale green bottle is widely used to hold white wine, and O-I's decision to stop production means Bijou will have to use dark green glass for its 2022 white wines.
The glass shortage in France started to become apparent during the COVID-19 restrictions, when furnaces stopped operating at full capacity, Vellacott said. Glass production is also reduced now, but for a different reason: fuel costs for burning furnaces.In fact, the French O-I glass factory faces an annual gas bill of 17 million euros, which has now risen to 75 million due to the "energy crisis", causing the glass maker to "slow down" production.
No one knows what the future holds for the bottle industry, and there are calls for the French government to get involved, he said, adding that some winemakers were concerned that glass makers could "manipulate the market" by artificially reducing the supply of bottles and driving up prices. He said a flute-shaped bottle that sold for 0.35 euros in 2021 now costs more than 0.70 euros, meaning prices have more than doubled in less than two years.
She commented that the glass industry is already so solid that France does not have the production capacity to supply the local market. "It's a big problem," she said at the Paris Wine Conference last week. "Prices can go up 15 percent from one day to the next, and there's nothing we can do about it, we need glass," she added. She also told db that the shortage may lead to a trend of reusing bottles, she said, "has completely disappeared in France because glass recycling is very effective, but now the price of bottles is so high that we may have to reuse bottles."
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