Word: plonking
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...Aniane lies 25 km northwest of Montpellier in the heart of the Languedoc region, known throughout the 20th century for producing oceans of undistinguished plonk. When that market dried up in the 1980s, a new generation of growers showed that the Languedoc could also produce smaller quantities of high-quality wine. It didn't take long for the news to reach California's Napa Valley, where Robert G. Mondavi, now 88, and his family have been making premium wines for decades. In early 1998, Mondavi dispatched a team to the Languedoc to find a vineyard where the winemaker could produce...