Slag wine, the viticulture of former mining areas

[Christophe]

I have just discovered this initiative which I find excellent: the valorization of slag heaps on wine hillsides!

[Christophe]

However the idea is not new, this Belgian pilot experiment from the 70s was the subject of an article published in 1979…

http://www.vignes.be/viticulture_sur_terril.htm

[phil59]

It's right in the corner of my parents' house, with the warming up, but we can still have harsh winters.

In Arras, there have been vines for a very long time.

It’s that, and California, that saved “French wine”….

[phil59]

Mont-Martre wine.... too

[Christophe]

It's right in the corner of my parents' house, with the warming up, but we can still have harsh winters.

In Alsace the winters are (were) harsher than in the North...this has not stopped it from being one of the best wine-growing regions...in the world!

[Christophe]

Mont-Martre wine.... too

In Paris ? Yuck….

[sicetaitsimple]

Interesting. That said, at €60/70 a bottle, it remains an exceptional wine. Almost the price of a ton of coal!