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Why is that?
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If you want your wine
to be ranked as vintage,
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the yearly production is limited.
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That means you can only produce
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a certain quota per plot.
:22:15
Growing up, I didn't hear
much about pickers.
:22:20
Wine growers have always
protected themselves against them,
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for if you let people
pick in your vines,
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how can you be sure they are not
:22:31
going to pick on a large scale?
:22:36
These vintage vines
have been entirely harvested
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and the surplus has been
deliberately left on the ground.
:22:45
They're drying out,
lost for everybody.
:22:48
It's a measure to protect
our profession and capital.
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What you see here,
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is called second
generation grapes, verjuice,
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or conscripts,
depending on the area.
:23:05
Conscripts.
:23:06
Like soldiers?
:23:07
Exactly, like conscripts.
Some people pick them.
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It's a second harvest
and yields a cheaper wine
:23:16
called wine of the pickings.
:23:20
- Will it taste of Pommard?
- No, not at all.
:23:24
It makes a table wine,
a really cheap table wine.
:23:28
The vintage wine region
is not a good one for picking.
:23:34
Gleaning, or picking,
is forbidden in Burgundy.
:23:37
It ended 3 or 4 years ago.
:23:40
It's sad, but that's the way it is.
:23:43
Gleaning was lovely.
:23:46
We would see the gleaner,
tramping along,
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Gathering the relics
:23:51
Of that which is falling
Behind the reaper...
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- Do you know?
- Du Bellay?
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- Right?
- It is.
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Impressive, you know it by heart!