VITIS PROHIBITA

By Stephan BALAY

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Documentary - Completed 2019

It could be a legend, but it is the true story of the ban of a handful of grape varieties, prohibited wines accused of all evils, rendered guilty to have bad taste and incriminated to drive crazy.

    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • FRANCE
    • Languages
    • FRENCH
    • Duration
    • 91 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Stephan BALAY
    • Synopsis
    • It could be a legend, but it is the true story of the ban of a handful of grape varieties, prohibited wines
      accused of all evils, rendered guilty to have bad taste and incriminated to drive crazy.

      Their crime?

      Resist disease, be naturally adapted to climate change
      and free from pesticides that flood modern viticulture.
      Braving extremely hostile legislation and despite their very bad reputation, rebellious farmers convinced of the true values of these grapes, have continued to cultivate the prohibitied varieties.

      Resistant grape varieties have not said their last word.

      The film offers an immersion in France, Austria, Switzerland and the United States, to better understand the history of these resistant grape
      varieties.