When I'll add notes about the pictures, it will be a traduction of Maurice Constantin Weyer's text, or of the caption text.
Here, the caption under the picture says : In a street of Gevrey-Chambertin, the red grapes are pressed right after the destemming and they will give white juice.
Le vigneron dans la cave familiale, et la barrique d'honnête pinard
In this context, the sentence would mean : "The vigneron in his family cellar filling a bottle of his honest and simple wine."
Honnête pinard, that's exactly the term that many of us like, and I'm probably not alone to try to imagine how this vulgar but honest wine tasted like...
Thanks for sharing these great photographs! I have enjoyed them enormously, and will come back later to have a closer look!
Regards from the Netherlands, where this is even more a 'different' world then in France!
Posted by: Mariëlla | December 15, 2011 at 07:33 PM
Que cosa mas bella, salud
Posted by: rafa bernabe | December 15, 2011 at 08:14 PM
Wonderful photographs! A simpler time for sure.
Posted by: G. W. Tenery | December 21, 2011 at 09:32 PM
A wonderful collection and thank you. Lest anyone forget, wine making is labor-intensive, very hard work!
Posted by: Cedarglen | December 22, 2011 at 07:56 PM
What an interesting post! Thanks for sharing!
Cheers!
Posted by: Joseph Di Blasi | January 07, 2012 at 09:32 PM
Great photos! My wife and I visited all of these places, and seeing them in their earlier years is a revelation.
Posted by: PurpleTeeth of Fullerton, Calif., USA | April 04, 2012 at 11:13 PM
Wonderful pictures from the past. You may still find bottles of this decade on some french wine sites : http://www.le-bourguignon.fr/vins-millesimes-anciens/65-clos-vougeot-1936.html
Posted by: Gus | May 14, 2013 at 12:11 PM
I love the history in these photos. Really like your blog, thank you very much.
Christopher
Bakersfield, California / USA
Posted by: christopher | July 17, 2013 at 03:31 AM
My husband and I produce California sparkling wine and in some ways, things have not changed if you use the methode champenoise. The are wonderful photos, thanks for posting them.
Posted by: Jennifer Jackson | March 20, 2015 at 08:13 PM