Good old days to very good technology

摘要

d'Arry Osborn is going into his 71st vintage at the famous Red Stripe and says things have come a long way from his Clydesdales, handmade wine and kerosene generators to the hi-tech world his son Chester uses in creating the latest wines for d'Arenberg. The pair give us their views on how much technology has changed the game.MY FIRST VINTAGE was in 1943, I was 16 and I had left school to work full time in the winery. We had six Clydesdales that ploughed the vineyard, we used kerosene-run generators and we made wine by hand with an old wine press.There was very little technology when I started, everything was just hard work.We weren't able to test wine for things such as residual sugar or titratable acid - I made the wine by tasting the grapes when they were ripe and examining the leaves on the vines.