Despite fire, the harvest must go on

Workers pick cabernet sauvignon grapes by hand in the cool of the night at a Napa Valley vineyard owned by C. Mondavi & Family as a haze from area wildfires hovers in the air.

Workers pick cabernet sauvignon grapes by hand in the cool of the night at a Napa Valley vineyard owned by C. Mondavi & Family as a haze from area wildfires hovers in the air.

(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Oct. 15, 2017 12:59 PM PT

Overnight crews in Napa continue harvesting grapes despite the fires that seemingly surrounded them.

Overnight grape harvesting in Napa Valley

Workers drop off bins of harvested cabernet sauvignon grapes on Friday.

(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Overnight grape harvesting in Napa Valley

Field supervisor Joe Olivera sorts through the freshly harvested grapes. Just miles to the west, the Nuns fire burned.

(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Overnight grape harvesting in Napa Valley

Workers pick grapes under flood lights on Friday night, with dust and ash swirling in the beams.

(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Overnight grape harvesting in Napa Valley

Workers hustle to drop off bins of grapes during harvest at a Napa Valley vineyard.

(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Overnight grape harvesting in Napa Valley

Lozaro Apoliar picks grapes by hand under floodlights.

(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

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