Automatic grape-picking machines have been around for many years, but they were traditionally associated with cheap wines, as dexterous care—the care of a human hand—was required to ensure healthy ...

Winemaker Pierre Seillan is a busy guy, working at wineries in Italy, France and California, traipsing across the Atlantic to oversee and work each harvest. He doesn’t want to miss a thing, despite ...

A labor shortage and better technology is speeding the trend toward more machines during North Coast harvest. Perhaps no agricultural crop has been more associated with the work in the fields than the ...

No winemakers want their product to have a bitter note to it. Now, new sorting equipment based on an optical recognition system can ensure this is never the case; the machine sorts the harvest into ...

Underripe, say, for the tastes of Steve Leveque, head winemaker at Napa Valley’s Hall Winery. In the past, excluding your kind from the cabs and sauvs meant untold drudgery and expense. Each morning ...