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Sarah Taber

Wine grapes can be ugly! They get mashed up into juice.

But table grapes have to be in good enough condition to ship, & for people to still want to buy them when they arrive.

So table grapes are higher maintenance to grow. You'll lose more the crop to un-shippability, etc.

28 October at 2:41 | Open on mastodon.online
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Sarah Taber replied to Sarah

That's one reason there's so much agritourism in the winery business. Often, there's surprisingly little money in the vineyard itself.

28 October at 2:41 | Open on mastodon.online
Sarah Taber replied to Sarah

Ok raisin time!

This is how most of the raisins in the US are made.

They just pick the clusters off the vine, lay them on a piece of kraft paper between the rows, and leave them there until they're raisins.

That's it that's the whole process.

Photo of a vineyard with raisins drying between the rows. There's a line of brown pieces of kraft paper (almost the same color as the soil) with a layer of purple grapes drying on them. The grapes are most of the way dried into raisins.
28 October at 2:41 | Open on mastodon.online
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