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Vevey, Switzerland, August 1999: a performer on stage at the Fête des Vignerons, the winegrowers' festival held only a few times a century.

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In Pictures: Harvest Time in the Wine Towns

Parades in Budapest, a stage on Lake Geneva, glasses raised in Yerevan. Four celebrations of the grape.

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Wine regions mark the harvest the way other towns mark a saint's day: with parades, music and long tables in the square. Some festivals come round every year; one, on the shore of Lake Geneva, only a few times a century.

Here is the season from four wine towns.

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