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A European regulation allowing for the production of rosé that mixes red and white wines is turning French wine makers against Europe, reports Le Monde. In the French South-West electoral constituency of Haute-Garonne, a traditional wine-making region, none of the 24 lists for the European elections have forgotten to heap scorn on the projected regulation. Seeking to defend traditional means of production, wine makers fear it will open the markets “to all kinds of wine, and any old kind of wine”. “Rosé is the new Polish plumber,” quips Le Monde, alluding to this symbol of cheap labour coming in from Central Europe first popularised by right wing politician Viscount Philippe de Villiers.
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