The climate is not Mediterranean in Saint-Martin-du-Puy (Gironde), and yet olives have replaced grapes on a plot of the Bordeaux vineyard. The winegrower’s family and neighbors came to participate in a historic first harvest. Faced with poor wine sales and the effects of global warming, in 2021, Fabien Bouges uprooted his vineyard and planted 500 olive trees on a two-hectare plot.
“There is everything to learn, we see that the trees are developing, they are growing, there is no mortality, it has produced olives… So it is promising”he explains. Émile Bernard, a neighboring wine grower, came to see the adaptation of the tree from the Mediterranean basin to the colder and more humid climate of the Gironde. “This clearly shows the wine crisis, a few years ago, we would never have asked ourselves the question of putting olives here”he points out.
In the great South-West, the objective is to plant 100,000 hectares, because the demand for olive oil is expected to be increasingly strong in the years to come.
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