We are now using the Hotel villa de Abolos as our base for seeing wineries [Bodega] and vineyards. [?].www.hotelvilladeabalos.com.
As you can see our Spanish isn't very extensive but we manged to have a long conversation yesterday with Rodrigo Fernandez Gomez on his wines, wine making and vineyards. He also took us through the caves which make up the winery.
It is on 3 levels, street for fruit entry, sales and formal stuff; 'basement' c
rushing, barrel storage, then there was further steps down to concrete/limestone vats and who knows what. At one stage the entire staff was trying to interpret for us but some how with actions, common words and listening with all my faculties the message gets across!
It is a beautiful country! So much more like our home. It is arid and desert like in places and rich and lush in other places. It was also nice to leave behind the greeness of Enland. It was getting too much; it is almost unnatural to my Aussie eyes.
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