What you notice when you first step onto the Mobile Wine Line is that it is loud. There’s the whirr of the equipment that shuttles hundreds of bottles down the line, that drowns out conversations.

When Keswick Vineyards invited The Feast to help out with the first bottling of their most recent batches of wine down in Kewswick, Virginia, we jumped at the chance. Little did we know the kind of ...

Red wine skins are eventually removed from the juice. “The wine ferments for about three weeks, but it takes six months to a year from the time the grapes are picked until they are ready to bottle,” ...

Deep green wine bottles whir along in a neat row. They twist and twirl through the mechanical line as if they were practicing a perfectly timed dance. Their audience: safety-goggled college students.

In the ambiently lit headquarters of Barrister Winery, towering machines and voluminous storage totes lay behind the brick walls. After harvest, this is where the winemaking process begins. While the ...