At a night-time raid last month its militants broke into a wine cooperative in Nimes and poured the equivalent of 1.2 million bottles of wine worth $830,000 down the drain in their third attack in as many weeks, reports Yahoo News.
Scrawled on the empty vats were the letters "CRAV", the Regional Committee for Viticulture Action, a secretive group that recently resumed a campaign it began several years ago.
The CRAV hates merchants who bring in cheap foreign wine from neighbouring Italy or Spain and has called for the state to guarantee prices for local producers.
The group, which once warned President Nicolas Sarkozy that "blood will flow" if it was not heeded, has in recent years claimed responsibility for bomb attacks on supply trucks, supermarkets, and the ministry of agriculture.
There is so much over-production here that the European Union offers subsidies to growers who agree to uproot their vines and start growing something else instead.
Other subsidies on offer encourage growers to make wine of much higher quality than the run-of-the-mill stuff that makes up most of the region's output.
Locals are fiercely proud of their wine heritage, and many financially troubled wine growers sympathise with the aims of the CRAV, although they distance themselves from its violence. But they are too scared to even talk to the media.
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