I lived in several Italian neighborhoods in Brooklyn, NY. As YTB said, you couldn't walk the streets at this time of year without slipping on grape skins or stumbling on empty grape boxes.
They all made wine in big quantities--150 gallons wasn't uncommon. When wine became chi-chi in the Seventies, you could find stores in every strip mall that sold winemaking kits in gallon increments. But there's no point in making wine in small lots, and not in the plastic jugs they provided in those kits. The families in my old neighborhoods had big casks, which is the right way to make wine.