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Hand-harvesting

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Hand-harvesting

Grapes are still harvested by hand on small vineyards or where top-quality fruit is required for special wine vintages. Hand-harvesting is expensive and labour-intensive. These grapes are being picked in the Gibbston valley, near Queenstown, in May 2005.

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Otago Daily Times

Reference: 14 May 2005, p. 34

by Craig Baxter

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Maggy Wassilieff, Viticulture – Vine management, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/18316/hand-harvesting (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 1 March 2009.