Harvest Customs

It has long been a tradition in the wine business to give out harvest T-shirts or other logo’d schwag to the crew to commemorate successful completion of harvest. Each year typically has to have a distinct logo and message, and speaks to the nature of that particular harvest. I did a vintage with Kim Crawford in Marlborough, and being a very fashion forward guy, he gave everyone bright pink beanies with the K. Crawford logo on them. Another year, when I was working as an intern at another winery, we ate the same sandwiches for lunch every day for three months straight. It also happened to be a rather long and drawn out harvest. That year the T shirt read “One Day and One Sandwich at a Time!”. Check out this year’s DWC version, nice job Val Crane!