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Pickers in the old days


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Laroze team of pickers in 1922

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The vat house workers in 1922

Grape picking has not changed much since those days. It is still carried out by hand with a pair of vine scissors…  
The pickers’ clothes are what have changed the most, since this photograph was taken.

The picking team in 2004


Women and children first...

Delivering a full crate

Time for a break

Picking

Two pickers per row

A birthday?

Lunch break

Carrier-photographer

Each crate is filled with three baskets and weighs no more than 30 kg. That way, grapes are not crushed during transportation to the vat house a few hundred metres away.

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