wine grown on a slag heap
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With its mining past, the Pas-de-Calais uses it to open up to new practices such as wine production. The slag heap hosts vines, from which a particular wine is drawn.
A harvest unlike any other. The vines on the slag heap look like a UFO in the wine-growing landscape. For the tenth consecutive year, these northerners have put on their picker habits. “It’s an expected event, so it’s nice to be able to participate in the harvest“, rejoices a resident. Another likes the idea of bouncing back on the history of the territory to make wine there: “Mining history has shaped our landscape, on a fine example of reconversion.”
Necessarily marked by the decade of mining, the soil is not like the others. The heat that emanates from it allows the fruit to ripen. Thus, these volunteers can squeeze fruit juices with a naturally high sugar content. You have to wait several years before you can taste it, but the volunteers console themselves with the previous vintages.