The grape pickers assemble at about 6.30am
Grape Picking and Pressing, Roussillon, France - 19th September 2006
Nosher gets up super-early to help out with the grape harvest, where previous experience at Mother and Mike's Harrow vineyard in Dorset actually comes in handy, and there's some modest respect for grape-picking skills offered up by the experienced locals. After the picking, we return to the winery and wait for the rest of the harvest to arrive, and watch it get pressed.
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Grape pickers in the early morning
Dirk picks the first bunch of grapes
Pieter amongst the vines
The grape pickers get to work
Nosher does some picking
Nosher flings a bunch of grapes
Pieter in the vines
Grape picking
The harvest in the trailer
The vines
Meanwhile, some cyclists surge past
Derelict farm machinery
Pieter by the old farm building
The derelict farm building
A big tree by a wrecked building
More vineyards
Pieter and Kai
The grape press is cleaned out
The grape press and some fermentation tanks
A tank door
Isobel stands around by some pipes
A stone building
Pieter looks at Kai
Isobel with a hat
hanging around, waiting for the harvest
Natan on a wall
More mangled machinery
A yellow building
A door in a wall
Kai and Natan play
A silver chain
Isobel sits on a bench
Anne-Mie looks into a tank
The vineyard manager
A bit of sweeping occurs
The grape harvest arrives
The tractor hauls the trailer full of grapes
It's an actual Lamborghini tractor
The grape harvest
The grapes are unloaded
The grapes are paused
Grapes are pumped into the press
Isobel and Jules watch the unloading
The press is checked
Isobel points
Isobel and Jules
Wrangling the press
There's a struggle with the grapes
Looking down an inspection hole
All hands to the grape press
The vineyard dude looks up
The gang hang around
Back in the vines, doing more picking
A grape hod on the back
The vines of Roussillon
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The grape pickers assemble at about 6.30am
The grape pickers assemble at about 6.30am
Grape pickers in the early morning
Dirk picks the first bunch of grapes
Pieter amongst the vines
The grape pickers get to work
Nosher does some picking
Nosher flings a bunch of grapes
Pieter in the vines
Grape picking
The harvest in the trailer
The vines
Meanwhile, some cyclists surge past
Derelict farm machinery
Pieter by the old farm building
The derelict farm building
A big tree by a wrecked building
More vineyards
Pieter and Kai
The grape press is cleaned out
The grape press and some fermentation tanks
A tank door
Isobel stands around by some pipes
A stone building
Pieter looks at Kai
Isobel with a hat
hanging around, waiting for the harvest
Natan on a wall
More mangled machinery
A yellow building
A door in a wall
Kai and Natan play
A silver chain
Isobel sits on a bench
Anne-Mie looks into a tank
The vineyard manager
A bit of sweeping occurs
The grape harvest arrives
The tractor hauls the trailer full of grapes
It's an actual Lamborghini tractor
The grape harvest
The grapes are unloaded
The grapes are paused
Grapes are pumped into the press
Isobel and Jules watch the unloading
The press is checked
Isobel points
Isobel and Jules
Wrangling the press
There's a struggle with the grapes
Looking down an inspection hole
All hands to the grape press
The vineyard dude looks up
The gang hang around
Back in the vines, doing more picking
A grape hod on the back
The vines of Roussillon