For about five minutes, they stomped and stomped the cold little grapes. And though in the end "Stomp the Vineyard" barely made any juice at all, the team created just enough to be declared the winner ...

NEW EGYPT, New Jersey (WPVI) -- When life gives you grapes, stomp them into wine. This weekend's annual Grape Stomping Festival at Laurita Winery lets you get a taste of the old tradition! "Here at ...

Though many outside of the wine business assume such quaint practices must be remnants of the past, crushing grapes by foot remains a popular technique throughout the wine industry, especially among ...

SPRING VALLEY — Standing, stomping and shimmying participants faced off, trying to squeeze as much juice from a wooden half barrel full of grapes as they could in one minute. With the fall harvest ...

FAIRPORT, N.Y. (WROC) — People in our area will have the chance to truly get into the wine-making spirit, at Casa Larga Vineyards. The annual Purple Foot Festival allows participants to try out the ...

Perinton, N.Y. – The 28th Annual Purple Foot Festival is taking place at Casa Larga on Sunday. This year’s festival honors the 50th anniversary of the Colaruotolo family’s Italian heritage on the hill ...

Alma, Wis. - Stomping grapes is an unusual experience, which makes the descriptions of it even stranger. "It feels like stepping in cow manure," said Jul Rohrer of Cochrane, Wis. "Its like squishing ...

Time to get down and dirty with native muscadine grapes at Irvin~House Vineyards' Ninth Annual Grape Stomping Festival on Saturday, Aug. 25, from noon until 5 p.m. at Irvin~House Vineyards located on ...

The first time most of us saw foot treading — the winemaking practice of crushing wine grapes with your feet — was on the hit TV show “I Love Lucy,” in the famous 1956 episode, “Lucy’s Italian Movie.” ...

ROSE HILL, N.C. – For nearly 50 years, Duplin Winery has invited people to experience making wine the old-fashioned way, by stomping grapes with their bare feet and celebrating the harvest at one of ...

What better thing to do on an autumn September morning than to get a pair of purple feet at a grape stomping? Adults and kids took turns for the opportunity to squish a tubful of grapes between their ...

We were stomping grapes. The man next to me had a filthy shirt, a week's stubble on his face and the remains of a cigarette dangling from his lips. At its end was an inch of sagging ash, which I ...