French grapes of wrath
“JOSE BOVE is my friend,” declares Aimé Guibert, the 75-year-old maker of Daumas Gassac wines, the finest of the Languedoc region. And his role model? While Mr Bové, the pipe-smoking and media-savvy leader of France's small farmers, targets McDonald's as the symbol of the evils of globalisation, the silver-haired Mr Guibert—a speaker at a protest rally when Mr Bové went on trial in June for trashing a McDonald's building site—has in his sights a Californian wine giant, Robert Mondavi. In particular, Mr Guibert wants to block Mondavi's plan for a winery in the beautiful garrigue, or wooded scrub, right next to his own vineyard.
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