Domaine de Vassal petition: who has signed and where do they come from?

Signatures continue to be added to the petition to save the unique collection of grape varieties at the Domaine de Vassal – to date 3959 have signed, so 41 short of 4000. Unfortunately progress is now rather slow with only 49 signing yesterday compared with, for instance, 282 on Tuesday.  

The top 21 towns/cities for signatures:

 1. Paris           223
 2. London         51
 3. Bordeaux      47
 4. Montpellier    44
 5. Lyon             38
 6. Grenoble       35
 7. Athens          31
 8. Marseille       31
 9. Toulouse       26
10. Dijon           22
11. Chambery    18 
12. Beaune        17
13. Marseillan    17
14. Nantes        15
15. Albi             14 
16. Rome          14
17. Thessaloniki 14
18. Nice            13
19. Rennes        13
20. Brussels      12
21. Groix          12

Some of the great and the good who have now signed the petition:

Jancis Robinson MW, José Vouillamoz, Randall Grahm, Jean-Michel Deiss, François Mauss, Pierre Amadieu, Bruno Chevallet, Michel Grisard, Fabien Lainé, André Deyrieux,  André Dominé, Jamie Goode, Luiz Alberto, Jane Anson, Louise Hurren, Wink Lorch, Brett Jones, Antoine Kreydenweiss, Ken Payton, André Ribeirinho, Robert Plageoles, Julien Brocard, Sylvie Augereau, Thierry Germain, Catherine Breton, Eddy Oosterlinck,  Wilfrid Rousse, Olivier Jullien, Pascal Potaire, Stéphane Mureau, Lydia Bourguignon, Michel Bras, Benoit Tarlant, Vincent Carême, Xavier Weisskopf, Bertrand Jousset, Catherine Simon, Antoine Gerbelle, Élian da Ros, Gérard Marula, Agnès Mosse, Paul Strang, Becky Wasserman-Hone, Chantal Lecouty, Alice Feiring, Lincoln Siliakus, Olivier Grosjean Thierry Puzelat, Antoine Foucault, Eric Nicolas, François Pinon, Olivier Bompas, Olivier Humbrecht, Luc de Conti, Jeremy Seysses, Bernard Baudry, Philippe Gourdon, Philippe Faure-brac, Stephanie Caslot, Emmanuel Caslot, Michel Chapoutier,  Emmanuel Cazes, Eric Narioo, Thierry Michon, Xavier Amirault, Pascal Joulin, Yves Girardin, Bertrand Galbrun, Sylvain Fadat, Marcel Orford-Williams, Alexandre Monmousseau, François Plouzeau, Nathalie Prieur, Annie Sauvat,  Philippe Stuyck, Roger Kolbu, Robert McIntosh, Emmanuel Ogereau, Charles Philipponnat, Vincent Pétré, Jean Clavel, Elisabetta Tosi, Lily Dimitriou, David Cobbold, Jeffrey Davies, Irene de Vette, Jean Abeille, Marc Kreydenweiss, Stefano Raimondi, Dominique Lafon, Peter Handzus, Philippe et Catherine Delesvaux, Ryan O'Connell, Pierre Pichot, Elisabeth Seifert, Tania Pithon, Luciana Braz, Elizabeth Gabay, Xavier Planty, Denis Gambier, Simon Woolf, Frédéric Brunier, Louis Villard, Patricia Boyer Domergue, Edouard Pisani-Ferry, Anne Graindorge, Nicolas de Rouyn, Patrick Baudouin, Vasco Magalhães, Heather Dougherty, Lizzie Shell, Jo Landron, Jacques Sire, Steven Defour, Ilkka Sirén, Cathy Henton, Roger Voss, Giampiero Nadali, Finkus Bripp, Andrew Barrow, Ted Lelekas, Mick Rock, Isabelle Legeron, Pieter Rosenthal, Leon Stolarski, Tom Perry, Benoît Fouassier, Chris Kissack, David Rowe, Ewan Murray, Elisabeth Gstarz, Ralf Kaiser, Margaret Rand, Gavin Quinney, Steve De Long, Boris Maskow, Hervé Lalau, Michel Smith, Anthony Rose, Georges Truc, Sabrina Sykes MW, Catherine Roussel, François Ribo, Marilena Barbera, Ricardo Bernardo, François Demouy, Erica Landin, Sébastien Durand-Viel, Dusan Jelic, Rod Smith MW, Ryan Opaz, Aleks Mehtonen, Keith Prothero, Harold Heckle, Hande Leimer, Liz Sagues, Gabriella Opaz, Christopher Topham-Smith, Anne Naumanen, Régis Chaigne, Michel Bettane, Christelle Guibert, Magnus Reuterdahl, Dan Tudor, Fergus Muirhead, Tina Gellie, Susan Hedblad, Jérôme Saurigny, Hamish Wakes-Miller, Dany Rolland, Sophie Ragot, Caroline Gilby MW, Sharon Parsons, John Matson, David Lehmann, Nigel Blieschke, Lotte Karolina Gabrovits, Justin Roberts, Lionel Gosseaume, Lisa Hall, Siobhan Turner, Peter McCombie MW, Michael Denton, Amy Wislocki and other Decanter magazine staff, Ivo Pages, Eric Morgat, Charles Metcalfe, Subhash Arora, Natasha Hughes, Philippe Rapiteau, Stéphane Riffault, David Furer, Sébastien du Petit Thouars, François Chidaine, Manuela Chidaine, Jean-François Vaillant and Aymeric Hillaire.

Now 4017 signatures.