Wine lovers will see their bills increase as of next week. The SAQ will announce Tuesday an average price increase of 1.66% applicable to 1,941 products. The prices of some wines from the Burgundy region will increase by 11.8%, an unusual increase. In the dock: climate change.
The wine producers of Burgundy and Gascony, in particular, are experiencing by their own admission a “dark year”. With their production affected by the vagaries of the weather, a price increase became necessary for them, they pleaded during their discussions with the state-owned company.
“We haven’t experienced that since 1991. We had a frost on three different days in April. There was absolutely nothing we could do. Nature has been stronger than everyone else. It is really the whole of our domain that has been affected ”, tells Ithier Bouchard, sales director at Domaine Tariquet and Domaine La Hitaire, located in Gascony, reached by phone by Press.
He confirms having lost half of his production, a finding he made last week at the end of the harvest. “We made requests to the SAQ, much larger than what we did in the past. »The bottle of Domaine Tariquet will go from $ 12.35 to $ 12.85.