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Regardless of how the tradition took hold, experts agree that cheese is rarely happily paired with vin rouge.

But in the vast stretch of vineyard that covers the south of France from the Rhône in the east down to the Spanish border, protest and dissent are as much a part of life as pétanque and vin rouge.

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Chinese drinkers consumed 1.86bn bottles of vin rouge in 2013, making China the world’s largest red wine market.

Rather than the usual, civilized final Friday of vin rouge and two men’s semifinals back-to-back in the main stadium Philippe Chatrier, the disrupting clouds have wound up forcing concurrent women’s semifinals, then concurrent men’s semifinals, in two stadiums a teeming walkway from one another.