Museo del Vino-Málaga

This guide to the Museo del Vino-Málaga, set in an eighteenth-century palace, follows the tools of a nineteenth-century boom: wine that once made up some sixty percent of everything the province shipped abroad, carried down mountain vineyards in goatskin sacks because the paths were too narrow for barrels. You'll hear how coopers stamped casks with carved barrel headers so buyers from London to Havana could tell one bodega apart, and how engravers cut matching lithographic stones to print the labels, both still on display here. The guide turns on what abruptly ended that entire trade within a single decade.