At the end of summer, grapes are collected. If the grapes are not mature enough in cold regions such as northern Europe or the east of the USA, sugar is added to the grape juice during the wine making. In many places the grape is still made by hand. Grape pickers walk through the rows of vines and put bunches of grapes on their backs or on the banks of their sides with a knife or bond scissors. The baskets are drained into large vessels or chests and brought to the wine factory. In some large vineyards in France , USA and Austria, vintage machines are built. www.eatandfly.org The juices of the oppressed grapes in the plants are mixed with the wine ferment in the grape crusts and the yeast immediately begins fermenting the grape juice. In the past, the only way to squeeze grapes was to chew them up. The lean feet peasants singed and danced, and their clothes were soaked with grape juice, chewing down a few hundred of grapes as tired. The goodness of this method was that the w...