Vini Insoliti | Pierrick Bourgault Unusual Wines | Pierrick Bourgault

Giant vines reaching up to 15 meters in height in Italy and Portugal, the ingenious and ancient production secrets of Pompeii wines, the successful bet on wines in the Venice lagoon, a vineyard-museum in Friuli Venezia Giulia where six hundred grape varieties from around the world have been planted, a political wine between Italy and Slovenia, the man who speaks to the vines through a speaker system in Tuscany, and even the Pantelleria bush vine recognized as the first heroic viticulture protected by UNESCO, the world's strongest wine growing under the sun of the Ionian Sea, Quebec's ice wines, wine from the Gobi Desert, double harvests in Taiwan, South Africa's historic monument vineyard, New Year's Eve harvests, classical music in the vineyards, a vine growing in the heart of Paris-Montmartre, a Bordeaux with dry ice, a historic vine planted in 1820. Many winemaking practices around the world are moving away from traditional methods, much to the delight of lovers of originality and opponents of standardization.