1.   The thought of living in a tent and picking grapes in the cool California mornings hit me right.

2.   We were going to take a bus to Bakersfield and work picking grapes.

3.   When Anthony was a boy the family arrived in California as migrant workers picking grapes.

4.   After all, the grapes have been picked and the wine made.

5.   German wines are ranked by ripeness at the time the grapes are picked.

6.   In some years, as much as half of all simple Beaujolais may be sold as Beaujolais nouveau, bottled less than three months after the grapes are picked.

7.   Its grapes are picked in September, often resulting in a wine that is thin and lacking in character.

8.   Ms. De Mayo does not expect to prune or weed her vines, though she has helped pick the grapes.

9.   Owning a piece of Le Montrachet is the dream of every wine maker in Burgundy -- and of many rich industrialists who have never picked a grape.

10.   Oxidization in wine begins when the grapes are first picked, which is why they are rushed to the wineries where oxygen contact can be eliminated or controlled.