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Jancis Robinson

Harvest Traditions: France

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Oxford Companion to Wine
Oxford Companion to Wine

By Jancis Robinson

Published 2006

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Harvest traditions are at their strongest in France. The church plays a role in many European villages, where a symbolic bunch of grapes is blessed before the harvest and a thanksgiving service held at the end (see also religion). (New World producers such as Robert mondavi of California have emulated this tradition.)

Vineyard owners and other members of their families try to be present for the harvest even if they usually work in a distant city. At the end of the harvest a certain amount of horseplay almost inevitably accompanies the picking of the last rows, and one or two pickers end up being thrown into the sticky mass of grapes (a tradition endangered by the increasing use of shallow plastic containers to transport grapes to the cellar).
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