page_title: Touraine-Amboise
section_title: Harvesting
hierarchical_section_title: Touraine-Amboise / Wine-growing area / Cultivation methods / Harvesting
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Tete de récolte montée sur enjambeur. Deutsch: Multifunktionaler Pflegetraktor/Traubenvollernter LPH 80 von Lauprètre
context_page_description: Touraine-Amboise is an Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée for in the Loire Valley wine region in France. It is situated within the wider Touraine AOC wine appellation. It is produced by ten communes bordering both sides of the River Loire. To their west lies the town of Amboise with its famous royal château. Since its separation from the Touraine AOC in 1954, it has constituted an AOC in its own right. Annual production stands at 9,000 hectolitres of wine, spread between red, rosé, and still white wines. Effervescent wines are also produced within this AOC's boundaries, but they are not entitled to use the Touraine-Amboise appellation, belonging instead to the Touraine appellation.
context_section_description: The harvest usually begins in the second week of September and continues through to the first weeks of October.  Over the last fifteen years or so, the use of mechanized harvesters has become increasingly common, especially since virtually all the wine-growing area lies on level ground.  As a result, manual harvesting has virtually died out.
caption: Grape Harvester
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