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 ...

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 ...

A new grape sorting system with the brains of a computer is giving Columbia Crest red winemaker Laura Sorge more control over the grapes that make it into this year's vintage. The Paterson winery ...

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 ...