Light Up The Night

摘要

SEEKING to heed that age-old business adage, "The customer is always right/' Mark Houser had long considered employing light towers to harvest wine-grapes at night. Vintners prefer cooler grapes, particularly those going into white wines, and fruit isat its coolest just before sunrise, noted Houser, the vineyard manager at Hoot Owl Creek Vineyards/Alexander Valley Vineyards, in Healdsburg, CA. "We started seeing other people more and more using lights for harvest because the wineries like that coolfruit," he says. "So we built the light towers."