French wine industry's love affair with pesticides blamed for worker health problems

A growing number of lawsuits in France have begun to expose the serious risk faced by those working on non-organic vineyards

Wenny Tari knows a thing or two about wine. She and her husband Gabriel have been making it since 1982, when they inherited a vineyard in France's picturesque Languedoc region in the south of the country.

Their 40 hectare Chateau de Brau vineyard is home to more than 170,000 individual vines, including some of the world's best known grape varieties such as merlot, cabernet sauvignon and chardonnay. They produce around 150,000 bottles of wine a year, 20,000 of which are exported to the UK.