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What It’s Really Like to a Work Wine Harvest

From picking grapes to doing fermentation punch downs, you too can be part of the crew. Here’s how
The Napa Valley Reserve during a harvest morning.Source: The Napa Valley Reserve
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Hi all you Top Shelf readers, it’s Elin McCoy, ready to talk about what’s happening in wine.

As usual I’ve been tasting more than my fair share of the good stuff, while tracking the 2025 harvest season (in the Northern Hemisphere) through emails, Instagram posts and phone calls to winemakers in Europe, the UK and the US. Look for my annual harvest report coming soon (2024 here).