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most of it was bad wine,
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in order to trade the wine for something to eat
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because the region, that particular region,
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called the Vivarais--it doesn't matter
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--couldn't produce very much at all because of the rocky soil,
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and so they would trade their rather bad wine for lentils,
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for example, produced around Le Puy, higher up
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--it doesn't matter, the details don't matter.
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So, wine had always been produced.
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But wine was fairly expensive
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and so people, as we'll see in a while,
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began to drink other things.