The French Connection: Optics in France and the US
It wasn’t so long ago, at the centuries-old Château Smith-Haut-Lafitte in the Pessac-Léognan appellation south of Bordeaux, that workers had to stand at long sorting tables manually removing pieces of leaves, raisins and other unwanted materials before destemming could begin. The process could be laborious, but it was necessary to ensure that only the best berries were used in making the assorted reds and whites produced at this baronial estate in southwest France. ...
Photonics.com, October 2010