As a red grape during harvest, you will be sized up for perfect ripeness. To figure out just how sweet you and your fellow grapes are, winemakers will use a so-called refractometer.

“Since grapes begin to decline as soon as they are picked, harvest is scheduled when they are at their optimum,” she said. Members of the Ramona Ranch wine club help harvest the 2024 grape ...

My mother, who grew up outside Boston, loved telling the story about one of her early visits "up home" to visit my father’s family in rural Whitefield, Maine.. This happened in the 1940s.

We’re usually picking Seyval around the last week of August, but I’m expecting it to be 7-10 days early this year depending on how this rain event shakes out.

The grape harvest in Minnesota usually takes places between late August until late September, Baer said, and there's plenty of challenges that come before then.

If you know the approximate time of year that your variety tends to be ripe, start tasting them in the 3-4 weeks before to ...