A heavily charred barrel, still smoking from the char, with staves of pine and chestnut inserted at intervals between the oak, into which is dumped a hundred beehives, combs heavy with honey, wax, and struggling larvae. To seal the barrel, cottonwood honey is baked into a waxen disc for the top. At the same time a wine is made from pineau d' aunis in the touraine with partial skin contact. Just before bottling this wine, the winemakers drink most of it, and replace it with the stewy contents of this barrel, while mumbling angrily about Depardieu and the communists.
