Lupe wants to go this autumn to see the grape harvest with her friend Ginger, inspired by mamatayoe’s collection “Among Vineyards”, but there are so many places well know by their wines, that they don’t settle on one.

Lupe opened her wine-growing guide over the word and starts to take a look…

-  What about France, Ginger?

- It’s really nice, last year I have been with Lola to see G rasse, which is consider the Word capital of perfumes. And there were a lot of vineyards and it looks great.

- Look ¡ Have a look of this… In France wine is cultivate at least since Romans epoque and it has become the favorite drink for French. Some of the most prestigious wines areas from this country.

-Yes it looks great, there we could soaked up wines culture, and taste some of the best in the world but… I have thought in more exotic places, I don’t know, what do you think about a wine from Chile?

- Let’s see what the book told us about that area… Yes, take a look: In America wine does not exist since so many time, just from the arrival of Europeans around the century XVI and XVII, and it seems they also have really good wines. The weather in some regions is perfect for the grapevine.

- Wow look, in Chile they make cocktails with wine. It started because the “huaso” the country people had to drink wines of bad quality so they mixed them, but nowadays this cocktails have become into authentic signs of identity, as the “earthquake” they do it mixing the wine with pineapple ice cream and fernet, how fresh !

- Yes Lupe, that’s true for the summer it must be great…   

- They also have the tradition to open a melon and fill in with wine, if the pulp it’s inside it becomes in a desert, such imagination!

The book that Aki and Ginger are Reading includes a floor map of the word wine producing area and the girls observe it with attention.

- It’s incredible how many places we can find where wine is produced, we would never decide ourselves! – Ginger and Lupe laugh while they continue keeping an eye.

- What about having a walk around the Spanish Vineyards?

- La Rioja it’s really well known in all the word, it’s true.

-Yes but there’s not the only area. There are also Galician wines, Catalans, from Navarran and Castilians…. There are wines in almost all the regions are very different. Since the red wine from Rioja until a Galician Albariño, look there’s a big difference…

- That’s great, so we can taste lots of varieties

-¡¡Ginger, Ginger,look at this!!

-What’s going on?

- A wine that does not drink nor on cup nor on glass! Its drink in a “cachu”, it’s a traditional wood bowl

-It’s so original! Where does it come from?  - Ginger it’s really enthusiastic with the idea.

- It’s the wine Tierra de Cangas, from Asturias. A wine region that is quite recent, since some centuries ago. It seems even that around the region there was some wine since the IX century, were monks who found Courias monastery and they really promote the wine of the region. After that the wine of the region becomes very prestigious during the XIX century. But as it is a wine that comes from High Mountain and the depopulation of the rural areas it has been losing little by little, and the wine-producing tradition it has been forgotten.

- So , we couldn’t taste the wine in a  “cachu”?

-Yes we would do it, for sure…  there’s several decades they have been working to recover it and come back to the best moments of this wine

Both friends continue diving by the wine’s Word during hours..

-Do you know what I am thinking about Lupe? We have to make some travels to have the opportunity to know so many wines as we can around the Word…

Lupe and Ginger laugh during hours having a cup of wine while they imagine some of their next travels around the wine’s word there’s so many wonderful places, landscapes, travels “among vineyards”…