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The visitors' centre at the Torres Winery in Catalonia |
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The tractors or lorries that deliver the grapes at the Torres winery pass this device. It is a "probe" to take a sample of the grape must and verify the quality. It is pushed down into the grapes on the tractor and collects a sample. |
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The tractors or lorries that deliver the grapes at the Torres winery pass this device. It is a "probe" to take a sample of the grape must and verify the quality. It is pushed down into the grapes on the tractor and collects a sample. |
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The second checkpoint at the Torres winery: all grape deliveries pass this "toll both". |
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A small part of the Torres winery. Most of the vinification is done outdoors in gigantic
temperature controlled stainless steel tanks. |
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The third step in grape reception at the Torres winery: This is where grapes are tipped down to be transported to the fermentation tanks. Behind it you can see the control centre. |
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A closer look at a few of the stainless steel fermentation tanks at Torres. Notice the man to give you a sense of scale. |
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Grapes have been delivered to the Torres Winery. They will be transported to the press and then to the fermentation tanks |
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This is another tank with just recently picked and delivered grapes. This is the Xarel-Lo grape variety and the grapes are machine picked, which you can tell from the abundance of juice and the absence of stalks. |
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More grapes delivered to the Torres winery. This is hand picked Moscatel grapes. You can see how the bunches are still more or less intact and that the stalks are still there. The archimedes screws will push the grapes fisrt to destemming and then to the press |
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Hand picked Moscatel. |
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Hand picked Moscatel. |
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The reception tank where the tractors dump the grapes have
Archimedes' screws at the bottom to transport the grapes |
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Stalks that have been removed in the destemming machine |
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Also the stalks are transported with Archimedes' screws |
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Another view of a small part of the Torres winery. It looks more like a processing industry |
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The top of the fermentation tanks. You can see the pipes where grape must is
delivered, the lids ... and a man telephoning |
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A tractor delivering grapes to Torres |
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Some of the fermentation tanks |
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Some of the fermentation tanks |
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This is the a row of presses. Above to the right (you cannot see it on the picture) you have the grape reception area. Immediately to the left you have the fermentation tanks |
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A winery worker at the bottom of the fermentation tanks. The "dial" is probably to shift grape juice/must from one tank to another |
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Looking to the left, this is another area of fermentation tanks |
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Stainless steel fermentation tanks |
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The filter section. Several filters of different kind |
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A closer look at one of the filters. Possibly a bentonite
wine filter |
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In the Torres cellar: Some bottles from 1962 |
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A very long corridor. Probably a few hundred meters long |
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Wooden barrels in the Torres celllar. The code shows what it is: the batch identity: 13063 (upper left); the grape variety: Garnacha (GN) (u.r.); number of barrels in the batch: 28 (l.r.); the date the barrel was cleaned (l.r.) (Don't know why there are two dates. Maybe one is cleaning and the other is filling) |
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Barrels in the Reserva Real room |
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The entrance to the Torres Reserva Real room |
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Torres created the Reserva Real cuvee wine in celebration of a visit by the king Juan Carlos |
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Reserva Real wine |
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Old wine bottles behind bars in the cellar. |
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