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Found this in the news.
Here is the origional link
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20017943-504083.html?tag=cbsnewsSectionContent.6
NEAR BENTON CITY, Wash. (CBS) Put out an APB for a red-lipped purple-toothed bandit!
A vineyard in eastern Washington State says it was targeted by thieves with very discriminating taste, and got cleaned out of a rare grape they were experimenting with.
"[This] takes a real wine geek," Paul McBride, one of the owners of Grand Reve Vintners, told local station NWCN. "This is a very exotic grape for Washington State."
McBride said the pilfered grapes were Bushvine Mourvedre, which is usually only found in the southern Rhone regions of France. The vineyard planted the rare bushes three years ago and this would have been the first harvest for turning the grapes into wine.
Vineyard Manager Ryan Johnson told NWCN the theft looked to him to be a professional job, and the grape nappers made off with almost 2,000 pounds of grapes in what he called a clean harvest.
"Whoever it was, knew what they were doing," Johnson said. And they only took the Mourvedre grape, leaving behind many other varietals.
McBride thinks that whoever took his rare crop is the type of person "who lies in bed at night thinking, 'I've just got to have this vine-grown Mourvedre'."
McBride and Johnson reported the theft to the Benton County Sheriff's Department and offered a $5,000 reward, but so far investigators have no leads.
Here is the origional link
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20017943-504083.html?tag=cbsnewsSectionContent.6
NEAR BENTON CITY, Wash. (CBS) Put out an APB for a red-lipped purple-toothed bandit!
A vineyard in eastern Washington State says it was targeted by thieves with very discriminating taste, and got cleaned out of a rare grape they were experimenting with.
"[This] takes a real wine geek," Paul McBride, one of the owners of Grand Reve Vintners, told local station NWCN. "This is a very exotic grape for Washington State."
McBride said the pilfered grapes were Bushvine Mourvedre, which is usually only found in the southern Rhone regions of France. The vineyard planted the rare bushes three years ago and this would have been the first harvest for turning the grapes into wine.
Vineyard Manager Ryan Johnson told NWCN the theft looked to him to be a professional job, and the grape nappers made off with almost 2,000 pounds of grapes in what he called a clean harvest.
"Whoever it was, knew what they were doing," Johnson said. And they only took the Mourvedre grape, leaving behind many other varietals.
McBride thinks that whoever took his rare crop is the type of person "who lies in bed at night thinking, 'I've just got to have this vine-grown Mourvedre'."
McBride and Johnson reported the theft to the Benton County Sheriff's Department and offered a $5,000 reward, but so far investigators have no leads.
