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Cabernet Franc picked hours earlier in the crusher/destemmer


triage: separating the MOG-materials other than grapes!


the skins/seeds are pressed into a pulp; fertilizer or grappa--take your pick


stainless steel fermenters cooled by water


only the best oak barrels at Vina Morande--Seguin Moreau


the language of winemakers


put camera in empty fermenter, pointed up...
have no clue what this is


macarena & pablo morande take us through some barrel samples


mr. suntan-lotion-all-over-face holds a lee stirring rod


bottling line


ditto


yep


alrighty


alfresco dining outside the winery of Vina Morande


a soccer field for the workers


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


go jaime go...the pisco sours are working


the entertaining area, in back of the offices of the Bethlehem vineyards, in the Casablanca Valley


the new morande "bethlehem" vineyards, planted only in Dec 04


the ocean is just on the other side of these mountains


one of our many cute chilean concubines on the trip


pablo morande and vineyard manager talk about soil fractures, particularly the quartz

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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