1 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So when a region of the world becomes known for a specific type of food, 2 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 they'll go to Great Lengths, to protect it. I mean, let's look at Kobe beef. 3 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It can only be called that if it meets a very particular set of requirements, 4 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 including that the cow was born fed 5 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and slaughtered in a region of Japan that includes the city of Kobe. 6 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Quebec regulates who can sell maple syrup and the government even keeps 7 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 a strategic Reserve French champagne is from you guessed it, the champagne. 8 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 In France, and it's heavily regulated. 9 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But the pandemic is exposing the behind-the-scenes drama about how its produced. 10 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 What a punk comes out the bit like to watch. 11 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Okay, and I used the back of the knife here. 12 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This part. Ok. 13 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Ok. Merci. Oh, it's quite heavy. Okay. 14 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This is very difficult. 15 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Now. Work many reasons to break out. The champagne Saver in 2020 16 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and that's bad news for Charles do value our his family. 17 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This is one little finger companion, retail rubbish to representative. 18 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The developer has been in this business for 150 years. 19 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 They produce more than 2 million bottles and Elite. 20 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The big clients like Delta Airlines 21 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and the Moulin Rouge 22 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 with covid-19, keeping planes on the ground and event, space is closed sales. 23 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 As have plummeted by almost 40%, 24 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and the champagne industry has had to take drastic action 25 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 at a crab, has a typical neuron having trouble. 26 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 If I didn't know the context, it looks like sabotage. 27 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So this is the fix it for ramen. You usually room and more back to the Mothership. 28 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So with the sales dropping throughout the year. How did the industry respond 29 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 with the city illuminated Dakota? 30 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Champagne has spent decades meticulously curating a global image 31 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 as the way to Mark special occasions. 32 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It's this type of deliberate management that led to cutting production 33 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 by 100 million bottles, this year to prop up prices, 34 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 but the decision left, over 10,000 tons of grapes to waste away. 35 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And it didn't necessarily account for issues 36 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 that were already threatening Champagnes reign as a celebratory. Drink of choice. 37 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Can you talk a little bit about the state of 38 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Of the champagne industry before the pandemic hit 39 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 because I remember there was already talk of champagne, 40 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 having a little bit of an image crisis 41 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 before covid. 42 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But if you do MB, 43 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 scholarship and activism evil 44 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 to some from a secure location semester final because part of the revenue, 45 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Sadiq Ali Duchamp and salute salute Circle, 46 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 we sure do two dudes operative lose a point of privilege Instagram 47 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and public key 48 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 to a small tree on the bank, on the color changing, tunic, 49 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 illegal immigration achiever 50 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and put the volume set for describe 51 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 professional self in photo orientation has a drive. 52 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Some smaller, producers have a different take on the right response to the crisis, 53 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 some clam Left Behind questions. 54 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 While the big names in the industry sell millions of bottles each year, 55 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 and some sillas makes only about 50,000 and each one can go for hundreds of euros. 56 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Chef liquid Reza come sir, 57 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 we a la parte know but it tastes. 58 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Where's your boss? It is best girl. 59 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 She tutored me. Keep he 60 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 means all producers are leaving grapes on the ground to compost something. 61 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 That's a losses. 62 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Particularly hard for smaller companies that can't lose out on Revenue. 63 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So the industry implemented a quota to try and ease the crisis. 64 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Do you think that was the right solution? Seabone solution? 65 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 See permit, the passage or kalmo antipater longer. 66 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Possible correspondent even more, probable that your sookie. 67 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Sookie sookie world of incoming fabric. 68 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Champagne success. Depends on Innovation from the next generation of winemakers. 69 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Charlotte Discovery, sweetie, but I'm building something. 70 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But younger produces 71 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 like Alexander. Shortened are also the ones with the most recent Investments, 72 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 leaving them? The most, at risk financially. 73 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I love it. 74 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Would you drink this for an aperitif or with food? 75 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The department who loves any problem or 76 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 we will blow out a settlement is really good though. 77 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Most champagne makers are doing fine for now. 78 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But their future depends on when the pandemic ends. 79 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And more importantly, if sales pick up when it does. 80 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It's of all the industries that have been hurt 81 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 by the pandemic Champagnes. Not necessarily the most sympathetic one. 82 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Why should people care that Champagnes been hurt? 83 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I'm awkward because what is only than me like a person? Namely France, a vision.