Bunting, banners and threats for Winegrower's Revolt anniversary
- Monday 11 June 2007 This September, during the traditional
European Culture Day that takes place on September 19-20, the
Languedoc-Roussillon region has taken the Winegrower’s Revolt as
its theme. Special events will take place in the village of
Marseillan, where the leader of the uprising lived and worked,
while commemorative objects, from banners to statues, will be
placed in villages around the region. Local museums and wine
properties will have exhibitions on related topics such as how
to preserve the viticultural landscape of the Languedoc against
increasingly industrialised winemaking practises. June 2007 is
the 100th anniversary of the uprising – the first time that
southern French winemakers voiced their frustration through
angry demonstrations that flooded over into violence. Cheap wine
from Algeria was flooding the Midi, and winemakers were going
bankrupt en masse. Marcellin Albert, an innkeeper and winemaker
from Marseillan, organis