13 Year Old Matrabating

Risky business (2)

the South and the North, it is sometimes funny discoveries by tilling vineyards. A Cairanne, it is not uncommon to come across huge oyster shells, remains of the time when the sea tickled slopes Montmirail. A Chablis, month last fishing was far more dangerous for the friend Thomas Pico :

"Look what I found after plowing, when I cut my seedlings, "laughs the winemaker showing in his hand ... A mortar shell. "Beautiful piece, right? It is the size of my pruning shears ... At least 18 centimeters!" It

before being classified Chablis Premier Cru, Côte Beauregard was acting ranges for the U.S. Army. It does planted the vine until later. And then we missed a story ... Who remembers regularly remembering the winemakers.

"It is always strange, Thomas concedes. At first it feels a little spooky. But we are beginning to be used. Three years ago I already found one. And my neighbor plot back regularly ".

Not impressed, therefore, the young owner of Domaine Wolf Paws merely deposit the shells near the end post. Then he finished quietly, the size of its young shoots. And that is how, in Chablis, they make wine in slaloming ammunition the last war ... Who says winemaker was a quiet business?

can also read the 2008 version of "occupational hazard" .