Champagne Cops Squeeze French Grape Thieves

October 04, 2012 from Al Jazeera English

French police patrolling Champagne vineyards round-the-clock are keeping sticky-fingered thieves from grabbing grapes. Winemakers believe 2012 could be a vintage year for Champagne just as poor growing conditions this year have kept the yield low, drivng fruit prices up to $8 a kilogram. Harvesters sometimes hand off the pickings for pay, or thieves move in at night.

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Champagne

Champagne is a sparkling wine produced from grapes grown in the Champagne region of France following rules that demand secondary fermentation of the wine in the bottle to create carbonation. Some use the term champagne as a generic term for sparkling wine, but many countries r... Explore this topic

Law enforcement in France

Law enforcement in France is conducted at the national and municipal level, and is the responsibility of a variety of law enforcement agencies. Three agencies operate at the national level, and at the local level each commune is able to maintain their own municipal police. Par... Explore this topic

Vineyard

A vineyard is a plantation of grape-bearing vines, grown mainly for winemaking, but also raisins, table grapes and non-alcoholic grape juice. The science, practice and study of vineyard production is known as viticulture. A vineyard is often characterised by its terroir, a Fre... Explore this topic

France

France, officially the French Republic, is a unitary semi-presidential republic located mostly in Western Europe, with several overseas regions and territories. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine ... Explore this topic

Grapes

A grape is a fruiting berry of the deciduous woody vines of the botanical genus Vitis. Grapes can be eaten raw or they can be used for making wine, jam, juice, jelly, grape seed extract, raisins, vinegar, and grape seed oil. Grapes are a non-climacteric type of fruit, generall... Explore this topic

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