Thanks to a world wide glut of wine, France is approving the distillation of 133 million bottles of "plonk" (slang for bad wine) in ethanol to be sold to refineries to produce gas and diesel.
While this is all bad news to French winemakers, since they only get about half what their wine would have sold for on the market by turning it into ethanol, it is great news for consumers since premier bottles from appellations like Beaujolais and the Côtes-du-Rhône can be had for about $10 - $20.
