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Wine grapes: harvesting vs picking

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Posted on 2017-09-15 in

Crew of grape harvesters. Moreda de Álava, 2015.

As with students at their course-end exams, grape harvest is for Rioja Alavesa winegrowers the litmus test after a year of diligent care of the vineyards: vine pruning, ploughing and reploughing of vines and vineyard rows, crop thinning and weeding, phytosanitary treatments against insects and the dreaded downy mildew and powdery mildew, shoot tipping, offshoot trimming and thinning… It is a reward for a year’s work and effort. (more…)

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