(29 May 2009)
AP Television
Provence, 5th May 2009
1. Close- up wine
2. Various people drinking wine
3. Flowering plant, pan of sign outside vineyard reading (French) Provence Wines. Rose area for 2600 years
4. Wide vineyard in Vidauban
5. Various cave
5. Close up of poster on shop window against mixing wines to make rose
6. SOUNDBITE (French) Paul Bernard, Winemaker:
“It is quite appalling because for 20 or 30 odd years the winegrowers and wine makers have put in a lot of effort to get to the quality of Provence rose today, often losing out to their families and leisure time, and now sweeping all that away with a reform is appalling.”
7. Pan vineyard
8. Wide of Centre de Recherche du Vin Rose (Rose Wine Research Centre)
9. SOUNDBITE (French) Alan Combard, Winemaker :
“I think we are the cradle of rose in Provence and I can tell you, we’ve been fighting for 20 years to make rose wine a colour of its own and a wine of its own. It is not by chance that rose has increased its market share in France and in the world from eight per cent to 20 per cent in ten, twenty years. It is only because we have dramatically improved the quality of these wines.”
10. Various interiors of laboratory at the Centre de Recherche du Vin Rose
11. Gilles Masson tasting rose wine
12. SOUNDBITE (French) Gilles Masson, Director of Centre de Recherche du Vin Rose :
“Rose wine has a peculiar taste thanks to a peculiar winemaking process which is very special, and cannot be compared to a wine which would come from mixing white and red wines, because we would end up with a pink coloured wine which would taste just as white wine, as it would be made with ninety-five per cent white wine.”
13. Cutaway of rose wines
14. SOUNDBITE (French) Gilles Masson, Director of Centre de Recherche du Vin Rose:
“We have the feeling that we have fought for this wine, we have improved its quality, we have improved its image with the consumers, and today, some opportunists who have an economic interest are threatening this fine balance we have achieved. We are in revolt.”
15. Various of professional wine tasting session at the Centre de Recherche
16. SOUNDBITE (French) Laure Cheila, Oenologist:
“It is fruity and at the same time spicy, rather complex and intense.”
18. Various of wine tasting
19. Wide outlet for local wines in Vidauban
20. Various of tourists wine tasting
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Mary Garrity, American Tourist :
“I have never really tried rose, because it was one extreme or the other, and I finally tried it here, and it’s wonderful.”
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Canadian Tourist :
“Well if anybody can make it they should make the French teach them how because they do it so well.”
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Canadian Tourist :
“It is the first time we’ve come across rose… well we have been drinking rose for three weeks now.”
24. UPSOUND (English) English Tourist :
“To be honest he’s got a drip by the side of his bed!”
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25. Close up of wine bottle tilt to man at table
26. Men having morning aperitif at local cafe.
27. SOUNDBITE (French) Local (name not given):
“It is not rose; it is a mix, but not rose.”
28. Mid shot man at caf� tastes wine and laughs
LEADIN :
Winemakers in France are up in arms over proposed EU Commission legislation that would allow rose wine to be made by mixing red and white wines.
Rose is traditionally produced by leaving the skins of red-wine grapes to soak in juice from white wine grapes for several hours.
The method tints the wine to a blush colour.
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