As much as I love to travel, I’m a native Oregonian at heart and love working on projects in my own backyard. I began photographing Oregon wine harvest 10 years ago: this year in addition to scenics I enjoyed capturing a few fun, quirky moments that define each vintage.
Sunrise over Mt. Hood Sept 19, 2013 - begins one of the earliest harvest this past decade.
Alex Sokol Blosser surveys estate Dundee Hills vineyard before harvest
Ladybug on Sokol Blosser's freshly harvested pinot noir grapes, exhibiting focus on sustainable vineyard health
Freshly picked pinot gris grapes at Lange Estate
What to do during brief torrential rainstorm? Harvest lunch feast with staff and select cellar club members at WillaKenzie Estate, featuring several older vintages of their estate wine and Burgundian classics.
Fog over Maysara's biodynamic vineyard at the top of McMinnville AVA
Pinot Noir harvest Maysara Vineyard
Tahmiene Momtazi, Winemaker at Maysara cleaning the inside of a fermentation tank
Muddy boots after the rainstorms, the soil soaked up the rain but grapes hung well past the storm to reach balanced maturity at Brooks Vineyard, Eola Hills
Pinot Noir grapes at Tualatin Valley estate before harvest, brilliant Indian summer days for majority of October
Youngberg Estate vineyard above the fog in the McMinville valley
At Youngberg Hill, harvest is a family event: Six year old Aspen Bailey, daughter of Nicolette & Wayen, approves of the grape quality sampling freshly picked pinot gris clusters.
Harvest at August cellars includes more than just wine grapes - three generations of the Clarence Schaad Family picking walnuts
Master forklift driver Harry Peterson Nedry of Chehalem Winery, and Pigeage by Lemelson winemaker Anthony King, the traditional stomping of grapes in open fermentation tanks.
Silvan Ridge cellarmaster takes the plunge into bin of fermenting pinot noir grapes - a warm hottub is the perfect way to end the day.
Chris Mazepink, winemaker at Archery Summit, showing full cluster fermentation of pinot noir
Bryan Weil and Lynn Penner-Ash taste through an afternoon's day of work, over two dozen samples of pinot noir to determine best fermentation processes at Alexana Winery, Dundee Hills.
Golden vineyards and empty fermentation tanks and bins signal the end of harvest, Alexana Winery
Kimberly Kramer with her pug Brody picking Carmine grapes - old vines planted in 1989, one of the only plantings in Oregon.
Carmine grapes picked on Oct 22, one of the last varietals to be harvested in the Willamette Valley, Kramer Vineyards.
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