In September 2020, just days before the grape harvest was due to begin in eastern Armenia, neighbouring Azerbaijan launched a military offensive in the region, another deadly skirmish in a bitter, long-running border dispute.
Filmmaker Jason Wise, best known for his Somm series of documentaries, was there at the time, making a film about father-daughter winemakers Vahe and Aimee Keushkerian, who were due to pick grapes from old bush vines near a village directly in the line of fire.
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