Hand-Picked Grapes ‘Compulsory’ for Burgundy Wine
3rd October 2011
The makers of the most expensive Burgundy wines have changed the rule book to make grape-picking by hand compulsory in bid to defend the region’s age-old traditions.
For the past fortnight, thousands of seasonal workers have been toiling under the autumn sun to pluck precious pinot noir grapes destined for Burgundy’s top quality red wines, its grands crus, using methods little changed since Cistercian monks cultivated the land 1,000 years ago.
How do you say ‘wetback’ in French?
October 3rd, 2011 at 15:30
I don’t know about French, but in German it’s called “gastarbeiter”.
October 5th, 2011 at 10:30
How about the completely non-PC “African,” since that’s the place most people are trying to leave these days?