Cabernet Franc picked hours earlier in the crusher/destemmer
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triage: separating the MOG-materials other than grapes!
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the skins/seeds are pressed into a pulp; fertilizer or grappa--take
your pick
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stainless steel fermenters cooled by water
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only the best oak barrels at Vina Morande--Seguin Moreau
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the language of winemakers
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put camera in empty fermenter, pointed up...
have no clue what this is
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macarena & pablo morande take us through some barrel samples
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mr. suntan-lotion-all-over-face holds a lee stirring rod
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bottling line
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ditto
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yep
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alrighty
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alfresco dining outside the winery of Vina Morande
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a soccer field for the workers
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ever had empanadas or chicken & beef cooked in a hand-made adobe oven? |
the national dance--the Cueca |
jaime moreno knows the cueca like we know the two-step
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go jaime go...the pisco sours are working
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the entertaining area, in back of the offices of the Bethlehem vineyards,
in the Casablanca Valley
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the new morande "bethlehem" vineyards, planted only in Dec
04
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the ocean is just on the other side of these mountains
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one of our many cute chilean concubines on the trip
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pablo morande and vineyard manager talk about soil fractures, particularly
the quartz
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when you have to clear a lot of trees for vineyards, you take the cut
trees and make charcoal for sale
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