EU Opens Tender to Turn Wine Lakes into Biofuel

The European Union has opened a tender to sell off unwanted wine lakes in four countries to produce bioethanol for use in EU markets, the latest edition of its Official Journal said on Wednesday.

The tender would offer 666,095 hectolitres of wine stored in France, Italy, Hungary and Spain to companies willing to put it to “exclusive use as bioethanol in the fuel sector”, it said.