French term
faire vendange.
"Et progressivement, dans tout le vignoble, le contemporain fait vendange."
Do I take it to mean this style was to prevail? An equivalent wine- or harvest-based metaphor in English does not spring to mind.
3 +1 | is flourishing/thriving | Mark Nathan |
4 +4 | reaping the benefits | sporran |
4 | is enjoying a boom / is becoming all the rage | Charles Davis |
4 | putting down roots | kashew |
3 | is the pick of the day | B D Finch |
Proposed translations
is flourishing/thriving
Pure poetry, thanks. |
is enjoying a boom / is becoming all the rage
"Faire vendange. Faire un gain considérable, tirer du profit de. Il comptait faire vendange dans cette place, on l'a chassé (Ac.1835, 1878)."
http://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/vendange
So I suppose an equivalent might be something like "raking it in", "cleaning up", etc., but they don't quite seem suitable in this context.
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I admit that it's a pity to lose the wordplay created by applying this expression to a wine-related context, and if somebody can come up with a natural expression that retains those connotations and has the right meaning, great, but I can't think of one. The best I can think of is something like "having a bumper year", which can be applied to crops, but "year" isn't quite right, and I don't think "having a bumper harvest" really works.
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reaping the benefits
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My read : Gradually the vineyard as a whole is reaping the benefits of modernity
I see what you've done, but it just doesn't seem to fit with the context. Thanks all the same. |
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is the pick of the day
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putting down roots
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