From there, they're trucked across the valley to Outpost Winery on Howell Mountain where the wine is made.
Come time to harvest the grapes in the early fall, Seaver can be found on the top of a truck, engaging in the sorting process, before the grapes go down a conveyer belt into a giant steel vat. This is how Tom Seaver spends each day and why, save for a few public appearances in New York for the Mets and his annual trek to Cooperstown in late July as the unofficial "team captain" and social director of the returning Hall of Famers, it's pretty hard to get him off the farm. He still gets up at 5 every morning, dons his blue denim work clothes, attaches his clippers to his waistband and saunters out into the vineyard to tend to his grapes. Seaver told me on a visit to his vineyard five years ago, when the vines were still in their infancy, that he wasn't in this to get his picture on the cover of Wine Spectator he was in it because farming was in his blood, just like pitching.
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