St. Emilion, a small French town surrounded by endless acres of vineyards, is one of the world's centers for the production and marketing of fine wine. We visited a pair of chateaus, next to each other and owned by the same family, one of which uses traditional techniques, and the other the most modern, to produce its wines.
Here is a scene from the traditional winery: grape skins, seeds, and stems in a tub in the foreground, ready to be used as compost; a worker hosing down the floor in the background.
And here is a price list from a high-end retail wind merchant in town, with prices of thousands of euros for single bottles of historic vintages of Petrus and Mouton Rothschild.
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