Szotyori-Nagy Ágnes (szerk.): A Magyar Mezőgazdasági Múzeum Közleményei 2013-2015 (Budapest, 2015)
Tanulmányok - Beck Tibor: A szőlőművelés és borkészítés munkafolyamatainak ábrázolása a II. világháború utáni években készített fotókon
Depiction of vine-dressing and wine-making work processes on post World War II photographs TIBOR BECK The photograph collection of the Museum of Hungarian Agriculture contains almost a hundred photographs that illustrate the period preceding collectivisation that took place after World War II. In the first tranch of transformation vineyards had not been collectivised and mechanised yet, and therefore even in the context of forced socialist economic structures vini- and viticulture continued to be practiced with traditional methods. The photographs illustrating this transitional period form an important source material that document the traditional work processes from hoeing to drawing new wine. Vine-dressing has annually recurring work phases. These tasks serve to sustain the fertility of stocks, and since these tasks have evolved according to the production methods of the vine, their basic characteristics remain similar across regions. Based on these criteria the work processes involving the maintenance and protection of vines can be divided into four groups in every Hungarian wine district: soil cultivation, soil improvement, vine pruning and spraying. Vintage and cellaring works, by their nature, display great similarities in nearly all our wine districts. Consequently the current study, based on the material selected from the Original Photograph Collection of our museum, presents the traditional methods and tools of propagation, planting, soil cultivation, pruning, staking, manuring and spraying as well as grape harvests, wine-making and cellaring. The work processes shown by the photographs published in the study illustrate the period of traditional Hungarian viticulture. This period lasted for nearly a millenium, from the foundation of the state to the introduction of socialist largescale vineyards and industrial wine-making in the years following World War II. The production method known today as handicraft viticulture is no longer definitive but still exists alongside globalised large-scale wine-making. 304
