Category: Vinography Images
Vinography Images: MOG Check
The first thing you do before you start pressing the Chardonnay? You check for MOG: Material Other than Grapes. Chardonnay
Vinography Images: The Lift
It’s a gesture repeated hundreds, thousands of times every day in August, September, and October in wine country. It’s a
Vinography Images: It Begins
Night harvest at McCrea Vineyard on Sonoma Mountain. The 2021 harvest has begun in a number of places in Northern
Vinography Images: Sunlight Held Together by Water
Ripe chardonnay grapes on the vine are shot through with morning sun at the Hyde Vineyard in California’s Carneros region,
Vinography Images: Before the Vineyard
Replanting work at Trenton Roadhouse Vineyard in Forestville, California. An immense amount of work and planning goes into the planting
Vinography Images: Pritchard Moon
A crescent moon rises, to be followed shortly by the dawn framed, by the vineyard rows at Brand Vineyards on
Vinography Images: So Long, Sucker
A worker suckers vines in Napa’s famed To Kalon vineyard in the Oakville AVA. Suckering is the process of removing
Vinography Images: Cloven Earth
Terraces carved into hillsides in the Cienega Valley are framed by the dark line of the San Andreas Fault, in
Vinography Images: The Massican Man
Winemaker Dan Petroski is caught red-handed, so to speak, in the cellar at Larkmead Vineyards in Calistoga. Petroski makes the
Vinography Images: Not For the Birds
A wayward vine tendril creeps above the barrier created by bird netting in a Napa Vineyard. Though not nearly as
Vinography Images: Otherworldly Wine
A view looking down on the town and vineyards of Taganana on the island of Tenerife, one of the Canary
Vinography Images: The Mountain
Mount Saint Helena is seen at dusk behind darkened rows of vines on the valley floor. Prominent and steep, Mount
Vinography Images: Wood Tasting
A pair of hands (and palate) hard at work doing cooper trials at Favia Wines in Napa. Cooper trials involve
Vinography Images: The Flavor of Steep
A view down the Sil River takes in the precariously steep vineyards of the Amandi District of the Ribeira Sacra
Vinography Images: Foggy Knoll
A rolling knoll emerges from the fog to reveal new plantings at Cornell Vineyards on the Sonoma County side of
Vinography Images: Rolling Green and Gold
Gentle undulations of green vineyards and golden fields mark the topography of the Los Carneros American Viticultural Area, seen here
Vinography Images: By Feel
Dan O’Brien of Gail Wines checks on a vineyard in Sonoma Valley. Gail Wines is a small project run by
Vinography Images: The Trials of Blending
A quiet moment of contemplation during a blending session at Brand winery on Pritchard Hill in Napa Valley. Blending trials
Vinography Images: Dawn Denizens
Wild turkeys roam the vineyard rows at an early hour in the Hudson Vineyard in Carneros. One of California’s most
