Winemakers light fires to fight frost – in pictures
Heaters, candles and water sprays are being used across Europe to protect grape vines from an unexpected late spring cold snap
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Leckford Estate farm in Hampshire
Photograph: Andrew Matthews/PA
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Heaters are lit early in the morning in Chablis
Photograph: Christian Hartmann/Reuters
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Paul Hewitt tends one of hundreds of candles in the vineyard of Waitrose’s Leckford Estate farm
Photograph: Andrew Matthews/PA
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Water is also being sprayed to protect the vines
Photograph: Christian Hartmann/Reuters
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Heaters in a vineyard outside Chablis
Photograph: Christian Hartmann/Reuters
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An aerial view of hundreds of lit candles in the Leckford Estate vineyard
Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA
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Water is sprayed early in the morning in vineyards outside Chablis
Photograph: Christian Hartmann/Reuters
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Heaters in vineyards outside Chablis
Photograph: Christian Hartmann/Reuters
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Workers light heaters in vineyards outside Chablis
Photograph: Christian Hartmann/Reuters
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Anti-frost candles burn under a starry sky in a vineyard in Jenins, Switzerland, last week
Photograph: Ennio Leanza/EPA
