For a few weeks each September, Europe’s wine regions stop being places to visit and become places at work, with grapes coming off the vines and visitors joining harvest programs inside working vineyards. In the villages below, festival tents fill up with foods and drinks tied to the harvest. Working vineyards open their gates for experiences that disappear once the grapes are in.
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