“Grape stomping is the stick shift of the wine world,” once wrote Abby Reisner of the food and drink website Tasting Table. “Sure, a machine could easily do all the work, but that’s not nearly as fun.

Fall is splendid for many reasons. There’s the wild foliage, the many sweet and disconcerting state fairs, and the mountain towns at their most charming. Fall is also splendid because, in wine regions ...

Got wrath? Stomp it out on innocent little grapes this fall at grape-stomping and harvest events in Napa Valley and the Amador County wine regions: Grgich Hills Estate, Rutherford Jump in a barrel of ...