Grape Picking Knife
notes: label: Description
content: This picking knife, used by a vineyard worker in 1996-97 at Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars in California’s Napa Valley, has a hard plastic handle, a curved and serrated metal blade, and a leather wrist strap. While different designs for picking knives may be preferred in other winegrowing regions, this model is typical of Napa pickers. They use the knife to cull grapes midway through the growing season, a practice that limits the crop and concentrates flavor; they also use these knives to harvest the crop when the grapes are ripe. Pickers often customize the blades of their knives, adjusting the length of the blade, changing the arc of the curve, or sharpening it to suit their particular work style.
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: 1998.3058.43
label: nonaccession number
content: 1998.3058
label: catalog number
content: 1998.3058.43
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife, grape picking
label: Object Name
content: knife
label: Other Terms
content: knife, grape picking; Winemaking
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: manufactured (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.7 cm x 11.1 cm x 4.5 cm; 21/32 in x 4 3/8 in x 1 25/32 in