Our friends Havier and Carmen drive us to visit a bodega.

The bodega is the home and factory of local wine producers.

Grapes are grown on granite supports to keep them from rotting on the ground.  Valuable during the growing season;  hard on the back in harvesting season.

Carmen reviews the display of Monte Sacro products.

The acres and acres of wine fields support other life too.       Proper fertilizer is always used.

Note the granite supports;  these fields take years to create and also last for decades!

Carmen selects a product to sample.

The producer pours a small sample for each of us to taste;  we make our selection to purchase.

We then tour the bodega and learn how the wine is aged.

Note the modern stainless steel vats and controls.  Other sites used traditional oak and all had a "secret" nomenclature to describe the wine, year and quality.

When it is ready, the wine is bottled.

The last step is to insert the cork!