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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the grape harvesting season continues, trucks are delivering grapes to wineries — but the loads carry more than just grapes, which is why infield grape sorters are growing in popularity. Up to 7 ...

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 ...

Wine grapes may soon be joining oranges and strawberries, on the list of "Fruits That Are Now Inspected and Sorted by Machines." As part of the Grapesort project, Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for ...

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 ...

Using mechanical pruning like above can save between 60% to 80% of labor operation costs per acre compared to manual pruning alone. (Hector Amezcua/UC Davis) Wine grape growers in California and ...