http://www.cellartours.com/spain/spanish-wineries/martue-winery.html
When we got to Martue, we immediately began a tour of the vineyard. We walked through the grounds and it was beautiful. I've never seen a baby grape until now! The vineyard is about 90 hectares, and each year they made about 300,000 bottles of wine from those 90 hectares.
Right after we took our group photo by the grapes, a storm came faster than you can even imagine. We headed into a building that turned out to be connected to the main 'house' of the winery and got to see the machinery they use to create the wines. We got to see the big vats that hold the wine during the fermentation process. We also met the son of the owners and his two friends, who are all our age and going to school in Boston in the fall.
After the storm we walked around a little more, and ran into a herd of sheep from the farm next door!
We then went inside again and checked out the basement where much of the wine is stored in barrels before bottling. It smelled very strong of grapes and wood, and the smell was a little hard to get used to!
Then, of course, we got to eat! The meal was very strange- a cold, egg-vegetable souflee type thing! But as always there was delicious gazpacho :-) Here are some pictures I took out front of the winery, and of course, the bathroom! So pretty!
After we left Martue, we headed to another city about an hour from Madrid, called Chinchon. This city was named so because the remedy for malaria (quinine) which comes from the chinchona tree (Peru) was brought to Chinchon. The city is known for it's Plaza Mayor which has cool wooden balconies and about 10 restaurants in a very small space! We climbed up the hills and got beautiful views.
All in all, it was a fantastic day! We got to taste lots of delicious wines and eat some interesting foods and enjoy the beautiful views! This week we leave for Barcelona on Thursday!
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