Wine from Montblanc

I live in Montblanc - not Mont Blanc which is a mountain, but Montblanc a village in the south of France.

Around us we have wine and - ummm wine and errrrr still more wine, so this month is the key to the whole year, the harvest le vendange.

The vendange started in August and will continue all through September - I will try to bring a record of this on video and show some of the things we take for granted and which tourists rarely see.

Here is a clip I did this morning, I noticed an old machine vendanger and thought at first glance it was called “The Acme Vendanger” machine … images of road runner and wile-e-coyote.

It looks like a magicians box of tricks - suck vines in one end and wine comes out of the other - at one point I thought it was going to make the chap in the white shirt disappear, or suck him into the magic box  - I think the cepage is Merlot.