Tag: harvest

Vinography Images: Ready and Waiting
Zinfandel grapes, ready and waiting for harvest are seen in the early hours of dawn in San Martin, California, in

Vinography Images: Dark Harvest
Workers move like ghosts against the lights illuminating a night harvest in Sonoma’s Russian River Valley. Night harvests help keep

Vinography Images: So It Begins
A worker dumps freshly harvested Chardonnay grapes into a hopper in the Carneros region of Sonoma County. This week, the

Vinography Images: Dangerous Work
A vineyard worker smokes on the job during a pre-dawn pick of white grapes in a Napa Vineyard. Vineyard work

Vinography Images: Press Art
Stains mark the metal of a wine press atop Napa’s Howell Mountain. With harvest completed, most wineries have moved on

Vinography Images: Feel the Flavor
A Cabernet pumpover proceeds at Covert Estate in the Coombsville AVA of Napa Valley. The French term is remontage, which

Vinography Images: Optically Perfect
Perfect fruit emerges from an optical sorter during harvest in Napa Valley. Using computer vision and jets of compressed air,

Vinography Images: Skilled Hands
A worker harvests Cabernet Sauvignon on Pritchard Hill, above Napa Valley. Women play an increasingly important role in the highly-skilled

Vinography Images: All Night Long
A vineyard worker picks grapes at night for Dalla Valle Vineyards in Oakville. Located on the eastern edge of the

Vinography Images: Grape Blessings
The first grapes of the 2019 Accendo Cellars’ harvest are christened with a bottle of 1997 Salon at Wheeler Farms

Vinography Images: Delicious Beginnings
Ribolla Gialla juice falls from the press at Massican Wines. Known for its high-acid, Friuli-inspired wines, Massican was a (hefty

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: Hidden Help
Hidden HelpSANTA YNEZ, CA: A crew of vineyard workers quickly move vine-to-vine to harvest several tons of Sauvignon Blanc grapes

Harvest of Fear
Writing a column about the state of harvest on America’s west coast in the face of historic wildfires seems to

Vinography Images: Hands of Harvest
Hands of HarvestSANTA MARIA, CA: Workers head into Bien Nacido Vineyards at first light to the vineyard to pick grapes

Vinography Images: Carmenere Harvest
Carmenere Harvest This lovely image of the harvest in Chile captures the beauty and the namesake color of the Carmenere