| Vintners are busy with an early vendange, the annual grape harvest that normally does not start until mid-September. |
| After a long, hot and indolent summer, Europe's winemakers enter a short period of frenetic activity, known in France as the vendange. |
| For them the vendange was a feast, a ritual, a time of strange excitement, more intense by far than the harvest of the corn in the north, more religious. |
