Winery Shovel
notes: label: Description
content: This white plastic shovel was used by cellar staff at Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars (SLWC) in Napa, California, during harvest and crush in the 1990s to clean pomace out of the bottom of the fermentation tanks, once the juice had been removed. Pomace is the solid material—grape skins, seeds, and stems—that remains in the tank. It is shoveled out by a worker who must crawl inside the big tank to remove it all. At SLWC, the pomace was shoveled into a plastic “Brute” container (objects 1998.0181.02) and wheeled to the press for another pressing, or dumped into a truck to be taken back to the vineyard as compost.
topic: label: Subject
content: Wine
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content: Work and Industry: Food Technology
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content: Food
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content: FOOD: Transforming the American Table 1950-2000
label: Exhibition
content: Food: Transforming the American Table
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1998.0181.01
label: accession number
content: 1998.0181
label: catalog number
content: 1998.0181.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Shovel, Winery
label: Other Terms
content: Shovel, Winery; Food Technology; Winemaking
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: manufactured (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 95 cm x 26.5 cm x 19.4 cm; 37 3/8 in x 10 7/16 in x 7 5/8 in