Lagar de Torrijos, Ecomuseo

About this audio guide

This guide to the Ecomuseo Lagar de Torrijos outside Málaga follows an old superstition of the vendimia, the grape harvest, when treaders in esparto sandals would not crush a single grape until a verdiales folk band of fiddles and tambourines arrived to set the rhythm. It traces this whitewashed 1843 wine press house, built as the model farmhouse of these mountains, where workers trod barefoot for hours beneath a stone weighing about a thousand kilograms. You'll hear why a machine was believed to ruin the must, and how the fresh wine aged in clay jars and barrels bound for the port on muleback. Look for the worn wooden press beam still standing over the vat.