Tag: harvest

Vinography Images: Digging Out
After red wine fermentation completes, tanks are drained of their liquid, but what remains is a wet soppy mess of

Vinography Images: Fresh Fruit
Just-picked Napa Cabernet Sauvignon drops into the hopper on the way to the sorting table at Anomaly Vineyards in St.

Vinography Images: Selective Work
Slow and steady, with what photographer David Sawyer says is “Amazing attention to detail” the team at Domaine Mee Godard

Vinography Images: The Convergence
Looking like the underwater photograph of some big purple wave, yeast and must converge at the start of a fermentation

Vinography Images: Vivid Crush
Alicante Bouschet gets dumped into a hopper during harvest at Fitapreta Vinhos in Portugal’s Alentejo region. Alicante Bouschet is a

Vinography Images: Ready, Set, Cabernet
Boxes of Cabernet Sauvignon catch the early morning light, as the grapes prepare to be sorted before processing at Anomaly

Vinography Images: Spotless and Ready
A view up into the motionless core of a destemming machine, whose rubber blades and mesh of holes neatly separate

Vinography Images: Drop in the Bucket
Key elements of harvest lie at the feet of a tired harvest worker photographer at the end of the day

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