This morning more than 20 of us gathered to celebrate the harvest with our neighbors who have the winery across the street. Most years they invite friends who travel from across France to spend a morning harvesting grapes by hand and then eat, drink, sing, and play silly games the rest of the day and night.
Most years we harvest white grapes which are used to make their sparkling (methode champenoise) wine. By law a portion of the grapes used for that wine must be harvested by hand. However, this year we are harvesting red grapes, just to maintain the tradition.
This is how the day began.
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