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On the one hand, it is a question of a very long-term vision, of the strategy of an almost bicentennial house which envisages the two centuries to come, of the values it conveys.
On the other, more simply, only the grapes, their maturity and their weight count.
The life of a company in the wine sector, however prestigious it may be, remains punctuated by these crucial moments that all winegrowers expect, fear and whose good performance is linked to natural phenomena that they do not control: the harvest.
This year, they took place under a still scorching sun.
These first days of September, on the Champagne hillsides, everyone was busy in the rows, on the tractors, at the press, with a smile heralding a harvest as generous in quality as in volume.
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