The waiter had warned of slow traffic caused by the harvest trucks and he proved right: I was soon back in the ancient world of the vendange, with peasants and tractors clogging the winding byways as I crawled through Epernay.
The vendange - the picking of the grapes - was over, and we had been invited to a meal with the local butcher in Fleurie, a small town about the size of Kelso.
Vintners are busy with an early vendange, the annual grape harvest that normally does not start until mid-September.
When les vendanges have been completed, the harvest is celebrated by individual wine producers, who throw lavish parties featuring local gastronomy such as foie gras and escargots.
After a long, hot and indolent summer, Europe's winemakers enter a short period of frenetic activity, known in France as the vendange.
Origin
French.
Definition of vendange in US English:
vendange
nounväN-
(in France) the grape harvest.
（法国）葡萄收获；葡萄收获时节
Example sentencesExamples
The waiter had warned of slow traffic caused by the harvest trucks and he proved right: I was soon back in the ancient world of the vendange, with peasants and tractors clogging the winding byways as I crawled through Epernay.
The vendange - the picking of the grapes - was over, and we had been invited to a meal with the local butcher in Fleurie, a small town about the size of Kelso.
Vintners are busy with an early vendange, the annual grape harvest that normally does not start until mid-September.
When les vendanges have been completed, the harvest is celebrated by individual wine producers, who throw lavish parties featuring local gastronomy such as foie gras and escargots.
After a long, hot and indolent summer, Europe's winemakers enter a short period of frenetic activity, known in France as the vendange.