"Vendimias - The Grape Harvest - 1" Castrillo de la Vega Travelogue by Beach_dog

Castrillo de la Vega Travel Guide: 7 reviews and 28 photos

Late September and early October in 'Castrillo de la Vega' is the time of the grape harvest. Extra labour is recruited and the vineyards start their hardest days of the year. Picking the grapes for the production of the local wine, Cerro Piñel.

Work starts in the early morning, with whole families and even the dog turning up for the harvest.

The bunches of grapes are cut with a small hooked knife and placed in the baskets, each one when full weight about 30 kg.

The baskets are loaded into the bucket of the tractor.

'Back to work Beach_dog' was Carmen's mothers cry.

An endless task, this field seems to dissappear over the horizon.

Carmen (Carmela71) keeps an eye on Beach_dogs progress.

The tractor offloads it's bucket to the trailer, slowly it fills, but we will be lucky to fill it by the end of the day.

Part 2 continues HERE.

Page Updated Feb 12, 2006
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SirRichard Dec 29, 2003 at 1:37 PM Report Abuse

Very similar to the other Castrillo, Stace! I liked a lot the intro sunset pic :-))
herzog63 Nov 15, 2003 at 8:24 AM Report Abuse

Looks like a wonderful area to escape the cold Alaskan winter!
Hosell Oct 13, 2003 at 11:05 AM Report Abuse

Great page and very funny travelogues,it is nice to see you two in a vendimia,really it is a very hard work!!! those chuletas looks very nice also.Welcome to Marbella and also to Spain Stace!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-)
Carmela71 Oct 8, 2003 at 1:56 PM Report Abuse

Great resume of the Vendimia, Stace, now I wnat the ones of the festival hehehehe ... What can i say, this villague is one of my favorites in the whole Spain, I wonder why.... lol
dabuwan Feb 18, 2003 at 5:02 AM Report Abuse

I like little old villages. Thank you for the useful info and nice pics.