Grape harvest in Ardèche, France

Here is how a grape harvest takes place in Ardèche, France.

The harvest starts at 8 AM because it gets hot in the afternoon in september here in Ardèche in the south of France.

Each worker takes a bucket and scissors to cut the grape.

The type of grape is Viognier, it is used to make a very local white wine. You have to take care not to put leaves in the bucket with grape. This vineyard is organic.

Once your bucket is full you empty it in a trailer (oups there are few leaves that will be removed).

There is one or two workers per line of vineyard.

Above is what is harvested after 2 hours of a backbreaking work !

Once the line is finished the trailer goes to the press.

Then the vine will rest in tanks for about 6 month before you can enjoy (responsably !) the wine.

After all that work it is time to enjoy a good pealla with all the workers, with one glass of last year wine.

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Great post @Mox26200

Wine is really a fantastic drink :wink:

I did live in the region of wine and know how hard is the work for good wine, while every year I promise myself to join a harvest team…

It never has taken place yet…

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Very nice! Thanks for sharing, and as someone who loves wine, I enjoyed this post. As for the leaves, I’m sure it’s very hard not to have at least one show up within the grapes. That’s some hard work. Congrats on the harvesting :blush:. Cheers! :wine_glass:

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I like so much your post post @Mox26200 .Thank you for sharing with us this amazing harvest with these beautiful photos. I hope you will get a very good wine :blush::wine_glass::+1::+1::+1:

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Hi @Mox26200 i really love your post, wow real plants grape so cute, and mostly i look grape in purple colour not green colour.

how many colors there are based on types of grapes?

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Woww @Mox26200 - it must be very satisfying to get to the day of the harvest and start cutting the grapes off the vines. How many grapes does it take to produce a case of wine? And how long do you have to wait until the wine is ready to drink?

Cheers,

Karen

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Thanks @Mox26200 for taking us through a comprehensive narrative of wine making process. This is first time I have detailed knowledge of wine making. Now I knew it takes atleast 6 months to make one. I am curious about the appearance. How come the colour turn from green grape to a reddish wine ?

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@TorM most of time they use machines to harvest grape, but for this compact grape results are far better if you harvest by hands. So if you be to join a harvest team be sure they do it by hands. Next harvest will take place 1 year from now.

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@Giuseppe75 I’ll tell you in may 2020 if the wine is good (but I have no doubt it will😊).

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Hi @Nyainurjanah there are mainly 2 colours : red (or purple) and white.

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Hey @KarenVChin , we harvested 13 tons of grape yesterday (:muscle:) and that will give between 12000 and 15000 bottles in 6 months.

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Hello @Emmik20 , we are going to make only white wine with these grapes. You need red grapes to make red wine.

I am sure you will have a wonderful wine @Mox26200 :muscle::blush::+1:what’s the name of the wine?

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@Giuseppe75 the name is Domaine Terra Noé. I’ll taste it in 6 months, I’ll tell you.

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nice post @Mox26200

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Thank you @AbdullahAM , I tried to report the great time I had harvesting grape.

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