The 28-year-old is the third generation of his family to tend the valuable family vineyards, which produce up to 100,000 bottles a year.

But, he says with a sigh, doing business in France is getting harder every year, amid a tangle of bureaucracy, red tape and high taxes.

Baptiste Grangeon believes the Socialists' 35-hour working week has made the French lazy, as well as creating ever more complex rules for working out payments and social security for his labourers.

"Nicolas Sarkozy is the only man who can save France," he says. "Many in France have forgotten what it means to work, and we need someone to remind us."

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