Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

Peter Miller

The last time Peter Miller had a glass of Château Margaux was during the fall of 1957 on a shady lawn in Margaux, France. Afterwards, he brought his camera to the sheds where barefoot men were separating grapes. A Signal Corps photographer stationed in Paris at the time, Miller had taken two weeks’ leave to document the wine harvest — men, women and children all pitched in to help with the annual vendange. After developing the images, though, Miller put them away and forgot about them until 2009. A bottle of that wine now sells for $475, but the images of the bygone era he captured in his photographs — which are at Burlington’s Frog Hollow through August 31 — are priceless.