practiceHand harvest
Picking into small crates by hand, so the bunch arrives whole and the cellar decides what to do with it. A machine strips berries off the stem in the row, which settles the whole-cluster question before anyone gets a vote.
How it is done Tradition
Whole-cluster work, sorting tables and cold soaks all assume intact fruit. Steep slopes settle it anyway: no machine drives the Côte d'Or's mid-slope.
Facts
| kind | vineyard |
|---|---|
| region | The world |
| confidence | medium · updated 2026-09-16 |
Its kin
practiceWhole clusterThe decision hand-picking keeps open.regionBurgundyWhere the slope makes the choice for you.
Who points back
Sources
- The Oxford Companion to Wine — Jancis Robinson (ed.), 2015
Where it came from: Cited a source we name · Harvested pulled from an open dataset · Tradition what the tradition says, hedged · Inference this project's reasoning · Field somebody stood there. This record as JSON.