For your Saturday edutainment, we present to you this picture of grape harvesting via modified ski gondola.
Where in the wine world do they do that? Hit the comments with your thoughts. Answer to follow.
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On June 18th, 2011 at 3:00 pm ,Mike wrote:
Valtellina!
On June 18th, 2011 at 3:20 pm ,Crushd wrote:
Original thought was Chile – but Italy sounds promising given Gondola was invented there. Interested in the answer!
On June 18th, 2011 at 4:39 pm ,Erix wrote:
In Savoie?
On June 18th, 2011 at 4:46 pm ,Peter Lampen wrote:
Could be Cote Roti or Mencia region of NW Spain
On June 18th, 2011 at 5:17 pm ,bill marsano wrote:
Looks most like the Valtellina. Actually, this sort of thing is done several places in Italy, although most seem to have switched to a wee monorail ‘train’ called the trenino, as in the Cinque Terre.
On June 18th, 2011 at 5:18 pm ,Christopher Olin wrote:
Southwestern Switzerland?
On June 18th, 2011 at 5:43 pm ,MT wrote:
Trentino region in Italy?
On June 18th, 2011 at 6:10 pm ,Jarrod H. wrote:
along the bank of the Mosel in Trittenheim?
On June 18th, 2011 at 7:29 pm ,Frank Haddad wrote:
Rhone ?
On June 18th, 2011 at 7:34 pm ,Damien wrote:
The mountains and the rather industrial city below looks like Grenoble to me. Savoie is a good guess as well to my eye.
On June 19th, 2011 at 4:01 am ,boerinballingskap wrote:
Mosel
On June 19th, 2011 at 4:25 am ,Katie wrote:
I was just in Italy visiting the Cinque Terre (5 lands) and saw this all over my hikes to each city.
On June 19th, 2011 at 3:21 pm ,Laurie wrote:
I second Valtellina.
On June 19th, 2011 at 6:03 pm ,Mark wrote:
I’d be guessing Switzerland. It looks a little like it could be Vaud or perhaps the Valais.
On June 19th, 2011 at 8:52 pm ,adi wrote:
Southern Switzerland.
On June 19th, 2011 at 10:30 pm ,Taylor wrote:
I agree with Valais of Switzerland.
On June 20th, 2011 at 1:32 am ,Steve Edmunds wrote:
Looks like Alto Adige to me
On June 20th, 2011 at 8:29 am ,Manger Leger wrote:
I’d be guessing Switzerland too
On June 20th, 2011 at 8:36 am ,Ar.Pe.Pe. – mountain Nebbiolo | Dr Vino's wine blog wrote:
[…] the vineyards of producer Ar.Pe.Pe. are so steep that the grapes are harvested by a sort of modified ski gondola! And their steepness so rivals Hermitage that they also have signs in the vineyards in between […]
On June 20th, 2011 at 9:07 am ,Dr. Vino wrote:
Very good guessing all! Damien, I liked your deductive logic. Congratulations to Mike, Bill, Katie and Laurie who all nailed it as Valtellina in the northern Italian region of Lombardy. (Bill, I’ll have to find some pics of that monorail!) Everyone else was really close.
The producer is Ar.Pe.Pe. and I found this photo from their album on Facebook. I wrote up their delicious, entry-level Valtellina rosso here.
On July 2nd, 2011 at 2:51 pm ,Where in the wine world are we? Grape elevator edition | Dr Vino's wine blog wrote:
[…] we bring you an encore edition. Last time, it was grapes transported down the steep vineyard via something akin to a ski gondola. This time, we present steep vineyard transportation via modified […]
On November 26th, 2012 at 8:25 am ,A question of etiquette: dining with abstainers | Dr Vino's wine blog wrote:
[…] if they would mind and then went ahead and indulged in some Ar. Pe Pe, a 2009 Nebbiolo from the vertiginous slopes of Valtellina (find this wine). I poured the wine in the kitchen, brought the glasses to where we were sitting […]