(Winespectator) - After last month's sans-vandalism protest by winemakers in southern France, a rather blasé affair, Unfiltered feared the days of peaceful-protest crashing and wine tank–emptying were over. Had the wine vandals of yore simply achieved their goal of ridding France of Spanish wine? Nope, and turns out it wouldn't have mattered anyway!

In the past week and change, the Comité d'Action Viticole (CAV) struck two wineries in the Aude and the Hérault, in the Languedoc-Roussillon viticultural region. The anonymous group of vintner-militants has become notorious in recent years for vandalizing properties to protest the importation of Spanish table wine which, they claim, undercuts French juice in the market. They target bulk wineries that store and sell wine of Spanish origin.