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...GRAPE PICKERS SLOGGING THROUGH the muddy fields of Champagne's rain-moistened vineyards this harvesttime have had an unusual mission: for the first time in memory they have been told to pick fewer grapes. The decision was made by growers who, until recently, were happy to bottle anything that could conceivably qualify as champagne and sell it to an apparently insatiable public at steadily rising prices. This season, instead of aiming for the usual yield of 12,000 kilos of grapes per hectare, the pickers have been given a target of around 8,000 kilos. "It hurts the heart...
...result has been a buildup of unsold stock, which now amounts to an estimated 1 billion bottles, or more than four years' worth of sales, compared with a normal buffer stock of less than three years. By reducing the grape harvest by a third, the producers are aiming for 15 million fewer bottles. Against current surpluses, that may seem like a drop in the bucket, but it is widely viewed as a step in the right direction. The new agreement worked out by vineyard owners and union workers also provides for lowering grape prices from an all-time high...
Hunt for pirates' treasure on Bumpkin, Lovells, Gallops, Grape and Peddocks Islands. Treasure maps at island docks, Boat transportation $6, program free...
Guided natural history walks on Bumpkin, Gallops, Grape, Lovells and Peddocks islands and tours of Fort Warren on Georges Island. Ferries from Long Wharf, Boston and Hingham Shipyard to Georges Island, connecting island water taxi; boat transportation $6, island programs free...
Dionyshus (pupetecred> by Raphed Sperry), god of aged grape juice and its accompanying revelry, open the play with a lament for hometown Athena. The ongoing war with Sparta and the deaths of two, great tragedians, Aeschylus (Howard Miller) and Euripedes (Tanya Bezrah), have left the city in turmoil, Dionysius journeys to the underworld to fetch one of the late, great playwrights to save the war-torn polis...