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In France’s beloved vineyards, raging wildfires threaten a way of life - NBC News
WorldBy Raf Sanchez, Shira Pinson7/31/20261 min read
Green leaves and young grapes have staff at the Château de Rouillac vineyard hopeful for a vintage year.
✨ Key Highlights
- A megafire tearing through the region around Bordeaux, France, has left a landscape of blackened trees and scorched earth, threatening the area's celebrated vineyards and rural way of life.
- At the 17th-century Château de Rouillac vineyard in Canéjan, staff remained hopeful for a strong vintage, with green leaves and young grapes visible, even as devastation lay just over 12 miles away.
- Vineyard owners described the crisis as multifaceted, spanning ecological, human, and economic dimensions, with families losing their homes to the flames.
- A forest fire was pictured raging in Saint-Jean-d'Illac, near Bordeaux, underscoring the scale and proximity of the blazes to inhabited and cultivated areas.
- The report, published July 31, 2026, by NBC News correspondents Raf Sanchez and Shira Pinson, highlights the threat wildfires pose to a beloved winemaking tradition and the livelihoods tied to it.
CANÉJAN, France Green leaves and young grapes have staff at the Château de Rouillac vineyard hopeful for a vintage year. But a little over 12 miles away from the 17th-century estate lies a hellscape