WS: Rebuilding a Rhone Vineyard (Backhoe Time!)
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Grapes from hillside vineyards can make great wines, but building and working these slopes is not an easy task. High above the Rhone River, Jean-Louis Chave showed his work-in-progress to James Molesworth.
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