With Napa cabernet prices reaching the stratosphere and no end in sight for deeper pockets, let's reflect on France. Remember them? As their vines were rotting, they grafted american root stock to create what is the current sum total of French wine as we know it. With Napa's great 2002 Screaming Eagle cab at $2000 per bottle... but I digress... Here is an article from the BBC on ground zero Languedoc.