Digital Journal — When you think of winemakers, you might imagine elderly French or Italian peasants, reaching to select the ideal grapes from their yield. They hand-pick each grape from the vine, then wash, separate and lay them out to be pressed. You’ve seen these photos — farmers walking barefoot on grapes, pants rolled up to their knees.
It’s a lovely image, but one that rarely exists today. Modern wineries around the world — from California to France to Canada — combine traditional methods of wine creation with newer technologically innovative forms.
From Ontario to Australia, winemaking is adopting technology borrowed from NASA and beyond.
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