La Bodega El Fabuslista
(The Fabulist’s Cellar) stands
out among the underground cellars. It
is located under the Palace of the Samaniegos,
where Félix María de Samaniego
was inspired to write his literary works,
nowadays it is the tourist office. The
cellar is prepared for tourist and cultural
visits and elaborates its wines in a
traditional way, for the pleasure of
its visitors.
We can see two wineries on the ground
floor of the cellar, where 2,000 pitchers
of wine (32,000 litres) are elaborated
annually in a traditional way, treading
the grapes like in ancient times. We
can also see a press which dates from
1903 and a machine called “despalilladora”
which is used to remove the stalks from
the grapes. At about seven metres depth,
we find three parallel corridors which
are linked among them with others perpendicular.
The first of them is used for the elaboration
of wine, the second one is used or ageing
and the last one is prepared for the
tasting of food and wines, both white
an red, or young and crianza. |
