Archive for the 'Harvest' Category
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009







PHOTOS (from top to bottom): A destemmer rotates a batch of Tempranillo grape clusters at Bodegas Palacio in Laguardia; a cosechero, or grape grower, at Bodegas Palacio offers a visitor a cluster of Tempranillo grapes; Tom Athans, wine buyer at NYC’s soon-to-be open East Side Social Club; the sorting table at Bodegas Hermanos Peciña in San Vicente de la Sonsierra; unloading comportas, baskets made of poplar wood, at R. López de Heredia Viña Tondonia in Haro; a worker approaching López de Heredia’s rotating, wrought iron comporta sleeve; another worker calls out a number corresponding to the grapes’ origin as he empties the poplar basket into the winery’s destemmer.
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Friday, September 18th, 2009
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
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Saturday, December 20th, 2008
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Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
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