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So, basically, what we've gotta do
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is we've got to skip
forward now on the schedule.
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Okay, we've got to skip forward
and just go straight to Valencia
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so we don't miss the
rest of the shoot schedule,
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and we got a dinner planned tonight,
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different things, so.
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All right, I'm gonna...
Are you staying in, Ed?
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No, you're probably leaving, right?
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Let's shut it off.
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Edwin Brochin: I can't
remember my first taste of wine,
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but I'll never forget the
moment I experienced
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really good wine.
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One sip of the deep crimson elixir
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made time stand still.
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With flavors unfolding on my palate
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like a symphony, the moment wasn't really
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about the taste, but an
awakening of my senses.
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I guess that's when I first realized that
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wine was more than something we drink.
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Instead, it's something we discover.
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My life's been a story of passion,
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hard work, and competition.
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Call it a curse or a blessing,
I've always been driven
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to be at the top of my game.
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So, it was only fitting that
along with my business partner,
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Dr. Chris Burns, would embark on a venture
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that aimed for nothing short of excellence.
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Our passion for identifying the best wines
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was not just a quest for perfection,
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but a testament to our belief that wine
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has the power to transcend time and space,
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offering an extraordinary
sensory experience
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to those who are fortunate enough
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to enjoy it.
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Welcome to the beautiful city
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of Valencia, Spain, where we're gonna enjoy
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some of the most exquisite Spanish cuisine
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and paired along with
some of the finest wine
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in the world.
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Here we are in
beautiful Valencia, Spain,
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city of 100 bell towers,
where winemaking dates back
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over 1,000 years.
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After a quick visit
to the heart of Valencia,
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we headed to Alicante and made a quick stop
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for some breakfast.
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What we're having here right now
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is a traditional breakfast.
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Starts off with peanuts and olives,
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and they bring you out
the local favorite grape,
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which just happens to be a merseguera,
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a local merseguera.
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It's delicious.
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Welcome to Alto Turia,
the highest point of elevation
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in the Valencia province
where severe winters
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and mild summers are
the perfect combination
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for growing amazing grapes.
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Behind this picturesque facade is home to
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one of the most underrated white grapes,
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the little known merseguera.
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Gregorio Gomez: My name is Gregorio Gomez.
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I make wine of artisan characteristics,
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and out of our small winery
we create the Falconer 2
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exclusively for the United States.
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These vineyards are very special,
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they are ancient vines,
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they're old vines from
the region of Alto Turia.
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Which is a region with unique, special
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climate characteristics and
with a unique soil compound
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which is unique to this vineyard.
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Look at this soil, buddy.
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Chris Burns: Sandstone.
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Have you ever
seen anything so beautiful?
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No.
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Finally here.
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I mean, it's just a dream come true.
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And look at these grapes coming out.
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They're beautiful.
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So, now you know where we
get the blood of the ancient vine
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right there, right?
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For years I have dreamt
about making this journey.
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And now, here today, I have felt the soil,
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tasted the water from
the well, and gazed upon
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the beauty of the land.
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This is another
example of the influence
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of the environment.
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These herbs grow naturally here.
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There's rosemary, there's
thyme, there's manzanilla.
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So, this also helps to
affect the flavor of the wine.
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You know, just walking around the vineyard
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just fills the air with the wonderful smell
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of natural herbs and perfumes,
and that translates over
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to the flavors of the wines.
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It's a wonderful thing.
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For centuries these
wines have been enjoyed
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by those with the most regal of tastes
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and were said to be
enjoyed right here in 1492
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at the marriage of Queen Isabel de Castile
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and Ferdinand of Arragon.
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Now we are arriving
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to Falconer Sport of Kings Vineyard
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in Villa Del Prado just outside of Madrid.
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I'm here at the
vineyard in Villa Del Prado
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that grows some of the
finest grapes in the world
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that is responsible for
some of the finest wine
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in the world.
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And I am standing at the highest elevation
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here in this ranch so that we can get
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a beautiful view all the way to Madrid
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and all the way across the valley,
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and even the vineyards
can be seen from here.
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After a tour of the vineyard,
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we headed to the winery.
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It was impressive, to say the least.
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We were given a complete tour
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on the entire process on how they make
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the Falconer Sport of Kings wine.
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Afterwards, we were all seated
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for an amazing food and wine experience.
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The main course
was slow roasted lamb
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and fried potatoes, a local favorite
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that paired extremely well
with the Falconer wines.
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A short celebration
leads us to the next phase
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of our mission: to locate and procure
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Spain's hidden gems.
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Pedro Alvarez: The variety, Cornicabra,
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olive oil that we made, and the one that
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you are tasting now
is from this olive grove.
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So, this is the first olive trees
that we harvest each year,
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and this year it was the
first that we make serie,
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with the bottles numbered.
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So, we only made 100
bottles, and this is the last that
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we have from the first day of harvest.
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This is the 71, 71.
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So, this is the last that we have,
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and we are trying to...
We're tasting it now.
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Then, past about two weeks that...
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From the beginning of the harvest,
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we harvest the rest of our olive groves
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and we make a coupage, a mixture.
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Also, taking care of
the optimal combination
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of its olive varieties to make up a flavor,
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to obtain the flavor
that we are looking for.
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So, we have at one part
the monovarietal olive oils
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that are three and is a
very short amount of it,
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like, 2,000 liters of it.
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This year we make that first day of harvest
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and that was only 100
bottles, so 50 liters.
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And then, we make a more numerous amount
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of olive oil that... from
a mixture of varieties.
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This is an
incredible experience, man.
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To actually be here where
you can touch the soil
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and smell the soil,
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and actually touch the vines and know...
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It's different when we're back home,
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just drinking it at the table, you know,
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having and celebrating,
"Wow, this is amazing."
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But to be here and see where it comes from,
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where it grows from, where you get
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the minerality from the ground, this is
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truly a unique experience, sir.
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Thank you for coming and sharing it.
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Yeah, so.
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I wondered... I
was hoping you'd make it,
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you know, I wasn't sure
with your schedule, but I...
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You know, I was like, "We gotta go."
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This was meant to be.
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Well, thanks
for coming with me, man.
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I really appreciate it.
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Yeah. What an experience, man.
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Chris and I are
searching for another hidden gem
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to add to our collection, and I think
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we may just have found it: Albillo Real.
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Edwin Brochin.
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Juan Manuel Bellver: How are you, Edwin?
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It's a pleasure.
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Really good to meet you, welcome.
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We're very
interested in your store here,
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can you show us around a bit?
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Of course.
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Vamos.
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Antonio Reguilon: Welcome
to Madrid, the Spanish capital.
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I am here to tell you that
Madrid is not only the city,
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it's the people, the
traditions, the modernity too.
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It's known that Madrid has wines.
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We have wines that are
hundreds of years old.
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There were famous writers
from the golden age of Spain,
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Cervantes, that have
spoke of the excellence
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of the wines of Madrid.
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In this case about the wines
from the region of San Martin.
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The apellation of origin
is the only one in the world
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that has the name of
the capital of the country,
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"Vinos de Madrid".
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I would like to explain to you
that the wines from Madrid,
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they have a characteristic like none other.
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Because we have an
orography, in this region,
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that can change dramatically
with a few kilometers.
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We have varieties of
vines such as Garnacha,
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cultivated at 500 meters
in Aldea del Fresno
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and within only 20 minutes
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we find ourselves in a mountainous region
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with a different climate,
and different terrain,
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and that same garnacha
is completely different.
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It makes it very interesting to come
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to Madrid and taste our wines.
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So, we've just gained access
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to the Cava 14 wine locker
where legendary wine labels
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quietly rest.
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It was such an honor to be able to see
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such precious and rare wines,
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some of them topping €70,000 per bottle,
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like this 2000 Don Perignon rosé.
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You know, people often ask me, you know,
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"How did you get into the wine business?"
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And I always tell them the same story.
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I never really sought out
to be in the wine business.
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I'm just a filmmaker.
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We just happened to be
in Madrid for the making
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of this documentary
at a time that coincided
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with the Madrid International
Filmmaker Festival.
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My wife and I made time to
attend the award ceremony
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and represent our film,
"Falconer 2 the Untold Stories."
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speaker 1: In style,
guys. speaker 2: In style.
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Finally, the day has come.
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We get to sample some vintage Fondillón.
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Upon arrival, we immediately
got into the root of the process
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and how this unique Fondillón is produced.
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It's like the Wizard of Oz.
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I like that door.
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Rafael Poveda Bernabé: This is the...
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These are the pioneers
of the wine from Alicante,
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in three centuries.
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Three centuries.
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So, what's happened
is, is each one of the pioneers,
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basically, from, yes, the patriarchs
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have always conserved wine.
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They didn't make it and sell it all.
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So, they always kept
wines and passed it down,
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and then they would make wines
and then pass that wine down,
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and then they'd make
wines and pass it down.
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And here today they actually have wines
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from the 1930s, which
that's very impressive.
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You know, I can't even imagine
what that tastes like, right?
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Oh, okay, okay.
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We have arrived.
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Hermosa.
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Wow.
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From the wines for Fondillón wines here,
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a minimum of ten years of aging in here
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before they will bottle them,
and a minimum of 25 years
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of total aging before
they'll sell a bottle.
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You cannot purchase a bottle
that is less than 25 years old.
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Now I want to invite
you to leave your signature,
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while there is good
light, so that you can have
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your signature here in the winery.
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How do you say honor?
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Honor.
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, very honored.
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Your turn, my friend.
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Gracias.
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Nice, nice.
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Thank you very much.
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Very good.
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Now I am going to invite you
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to sample the Fondillon.
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Tasting downstairs.
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En la sacristy.
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Sacristy is the small cellar
inside to the big cellar
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where you store the more important,
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more sacred wine.
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The sacred wine.
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We're gonna go down to the cellar
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and we're going to sample some sacred wine.
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Here we have...
And you can film this,
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the sacristy.
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Little did I know that
all of this sensory overload
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is just merely an appetizer
ahead of the main course
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that is yet to come.
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Here we are going
to break the seal for us.
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We're gonna
bust the seal on this one
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so we can sample some.
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It's okay?
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1944.
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1944, what an honor.
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Super.
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When you say it is okay.
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Ready.
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What I have in my
hands is called a "Venencia".
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It is a tool to take out the wine.
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An ancient tool.
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It is an eternal, ancient technique.
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An ancient tool to extract the wine
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from the barrels.
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Muchos gracias.
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Salud.
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Liquid gold right there.
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Oh my gosh.
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So when do we drink this wine?
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When?
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A wine so special, rare,
extraordinary, different?
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We drink it with dessert.
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With the dessert.
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So, when do you... when is it appropriate
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to taste and sample such
elegant and aged wine like this?
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Special occasions and...
But it's mostly served
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with dessert.
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Isabel Galindo: Well, the Albillo Real
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is a beautiful variety
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that nearly went extinct,
that has an important history.
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We are here in the region
of San Martin de Valdeiglesias
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which is the most central mountain range
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where the sun is very hot.
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The soil is full of granite
and the grapes are small.
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The Albillo Real, like the garnacha,
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which is a native variety that
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adapts very well to the climate and region.
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They adapt very well, and
they produce a caliber of grape.
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Relative to the terrain
and it's a very small grape
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that isn't as good for
eating as much as it is
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for making wine.
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It is high and bold in
flavor, in comparison to other
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Spanish white grapes.
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These wines have a taste that
is very smooth, well-rounded.
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And gastronomic.
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In Spain there are very
few varieties of native origin,
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that give us these type of wines.
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Most of them are very
acidic, wines to be served cold.
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These are the opposite,
and pair with any type of food.
328
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Have you thought about
how we're gonna handle this?
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How do you want me to approach it?
330
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So, here's the deal.
331
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Wow, that's delicious.
332
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We're looking for the hidden gem.
333
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Oh, we got the hidden gem.
334
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Yeah, I mean this
Albillo Real grape was dead.
335
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It's back. It's got a great story.
336
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She resurrected it.
337
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The wine is
delicious. We've already had it.
338
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She's getting ready to
serve us some large...
339
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Some that we haven't even had, right?
340
00:25:31,166 --> 00:25:34,208
So, I'm just gonna flat
out and just ask her,
341
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"Hey, we're really interested in your wine.
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How much do you have?"
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What she thinks it would
cost per bottle or, you know,
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just give us an estimate, right?
345
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Right? Is that it?
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I'm ready. I'm good with it.
347
00:25:45,791 --> 00:25:47,208
Let's do it.
348
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This is our ticket.
349
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Hello, look at this,
what a beautiful presentation.
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Welcome!
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00:25:56,583 --> 00:25:58,375
It's really beautiful here.
352
00:25:58,375 --> 00:26:00,333
This is a precious paradise.
353
00:26:00,333 --> 00:26:04,125
This place is incredible.
354
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Cheers to Albillo Real.
355
00:26:09,125 --> 00:26:10,500
She thinks maybe they're...
356
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Now that the vineyard is in good shape
357
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and they're producing quite a bit of wine
358
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that it might be a good
time to be able to consider
359
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something like that.
360
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After our formal presentation,
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we were invited to tour the winery
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where we had the opportunity to sample
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some of the rest of her collection.
364
00:26:45,875 --> 00:26:48,208
But I created a
movie a long time ago called,
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"Spirit of the Bull," and we submitted it
366
00:26:51,583 --> 00:26:54,666
to some film festivals
and it ended up in Madrid
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at the International Film Festival there,
368
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and there were some people there
369
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that had bought tickets
and were watching my film,
370
00:27:01,458 --> 00:27:03,333
and they kind of fell in love with it
371
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because it had a lot to
do with Spanish culture,
372
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and then afterwards they stuck around
373
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to watch the awards
night, and they saw that
374
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the film had won three awards that night.
375
00:27:15,250 --> 00:27:17,416
But afterwards they explained to me
376
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they had a little story of their own,
377
00:27:19,583 --> 00:27:21,208
and they asked me if I enjoyed wine.
378
00:27:21,208 --> 00:27:22,625
I said, "Absolutely.
379
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I enjoy fine wines and fine food."
380
00:27:24,625 --> 00:27:27,708
So, they presented me with a bottle and...
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Just a black bottle like this one,
382
00:27:29,958 --> 00:27:31,750
and I asked what it was, and they said
383
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it's a 2005 Tempranillo
grape from Valtiendas,
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north of Segovia.
385
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And at the time I looked down in my pocket,
386
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and I had a artwork from the Film Festival,
387
00:27:41,041 --> 00:27:43,208
"Spirit of the Bull," and I just happened
388
00:27:43,208 --> 00:27:45,458
to grab the bottle and
I just kind of wrapped it
389
00:27:45,458 --> 00:27:47,750
around like this, and I said...
390
00:27:47,750 --> 00:27:49,666
I said, "Wow, that looks amazing."
391
00:27:49,666 --> 00:27:52,916
I said, "That just looks
like it belongs there."
392
00:27:52,916 --> 00:27:54,333
Little by little, that's pretty much how
393
00:27:54,333 --> 00:27:56,916
the conversation started.
394
00:27:56,916 --> 00:27:58,333
Let's see the cave.
395
00:27:58,333 --> 00:28:00,167
Alejandro Costa: It will surprise you.
396
00:28:03,292 --> 00:28:07,291
Do we need a flashlight?
397
00:28:07,291 --> 00:28:09,041
And see, this
is what I told you before.
398
00:28:09,041 --> 00:28:12,166
So, the stones here, the way they are...
399
00:28:12,166 --> 00:28:14,000
Fit together.
400
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:16,291
This is pre-Roman, so it's... exactly.
401
00:28:16,291 --> 00:28:18,291
So, we don't have, like...
I don't know the word
402
00:28:18,291 --> 00:28:20,250
in English, but, you know, like an arch.
403
00:28:20,250 --> 00:28:21,666
We don't have the arch.
404
00:28:21,666 --> 00:28:23,166
It's like...
405
00:28:23,166 --> 00:28:25,541
And there's no
mortar? Alejandro: No.
406
00:28:25,541 --> 00:28:27,208
Nope, just the stones.
407
00:28:27,208 --> 00:28:29,500
Yes, just the stones.
408
00:28:29,500 --> 00:28:30,916
Impressive.
409
00:28:30,916 --> 00:28:36,875
So, here is
where we store our dressers.
410
00:28:36,875 --> 00:28:42,041
Yeah, they are, like, selected bottles.
411
00:28:42,041 --> 00:28:43,875
So, this is a bottle.
412
00:28:43,875 --> 00:28:46,708
Each year, I select a bottle or...
413
00:28:46,708 --> 00:28:49,458
Especially when the...
When I think that that year
414
00:28:49,458 --> 00:28:51,416
is something special.
415
00:28:51,416 --> 00:28:56,625
And, yeah, this is the
Spirit of the Bull 2017.
416
00:28:56,625 --> 00:28:58,750
Yeah, very few bottles.
417
00:28:58,750 --> 00:29:00,166
It's the perfect temperature
418
00:29:00,166 --> 00:29:01,583
in here.
419
00:29:01,583 --> 00:29:03,000
Yeah, the interesting thing
420
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:05,458
is that in the middle of
Spain... so the weather
421
00:29:05,458 --> 00:29:09,791
changes quite a lot
between summer and winter,
422
00:29:09,791 --> 00:29:12,958
but the temperature here is the same.
423
00:29:12,958 --> 00:29:14,625
Maybe it can be, like, two degrees,
424
00:29:14,625 --> 00:29:16,041
no more than that.
425
00:29:16,041 --> 00:29:22,083
As a winemaker, I really
think that two years here
426
00:29:22,083 --> 00:29:24,583
make some kind of magic with wine.
427
00:29:24,583 --> 00:29:26,250
Yes, it's fantastic.
428
00:29:26,250 --> 00:29:28,625
We're honored to just be a part of it, sir.
429
00:29:28,625 --> 00:29:30,708
Salud to...
430
00:29:30,708 --> 00:29:32,208
Your father-in-law.
431
00:29:32,208 --> 00:29:34,083
And the history behind it.
432
00:29:51,083 --> 00:29:52,791
So, interesting story.
433
00:29:52,791 --> 00:29:54,250
There's a phrase that comes to mind
434
00:29:54,250 --> 00:29:55,916
when I hear that question.
435
00:29:55,916 --> 00:29:59,208
It's a pursuit... pursuit of a dream.
436
00:29:59,208 --> 00:30:01,375
It was kind of serendipitous, finding that.
437
00:30:01,375 --> 00:30:04,208
I was playing golf with a
buddy and he says, "Hey."
438
00:30:04,208 --> 00:30:07,166
He says, "I got a friend
who imports Spanish wine.
439
00:30:07,166 --> 00:30:09,083
You want to try it?" "Yeah, sure."
440
00:30:09,083 --> 00:30:11,875
So, he's describing the
guy, and I thought, man,
441
00:30:11,875 --> 00:30:13,333
that sounds familiar.
442
00:30:13,333 --> 00:30:14,791
Let's think. I know this guy.
443
00:30:14,791 --> 00:30:16,416
He says, "Well, what's his name?"
444
00:30:16,416 --> 00:30:17,916
I say, "Well, it's Eddie Brochin."
445
00:30:17,916 --> 00:30:19,625
"I know Eddie.
446
00:30:19,625 --> 00:30:23,000
He taught my kid taekwondo 25 years ago.
447
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:26,166
My kid's a black belt now,
and he's in special forces."
448
00:30:26,166 --> 00:30:28,000
Said, "Yeah, I'd love to try his wine."
449
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:31,333
And so, got together with
Eddie, you know, tried the wine,
450
00:30:31,333 --> 00:30:37,666
and, you know, here
we are in Segovia, Spain,
451
00:30:37,666 --> 00:30:41,125
enjoying, I mean, some of the finest wine
452
00:30:41,125 --> 00:30:43,208
I've ever tasted.
453
00:30:43,208 --> 00:30:45,250
All right, so.
454
00:30:45,250 --> 00:30:53,292
I mean, he's got 2014,
2017, 2019, and 2020 right?
455
00:30:54,250 --> 00:30:55,625
That's available?
456
00:30:55,625 --> 00:30:59,041
How about that
2005 hidden in the cave?
457
00:30:59,041 --> 00:31:00,958
You're not getting a 2005, man.
458
00:31:00,958 --> 00:31:02,375
We can ask him. Wanna ask him?
459
00:31:02,375 --> 00:31:04,291
It doesn't hurt to
ask, as long as you can handle
460
00:31:04,291 --> 00:31:05,708
the answer.
461
00:31:05,708 --> 00:31:07,125
As long as I can handle the answer.
462
00:31:07,125 --> 00:31:08,541
Yeah, so, I mean...
463
00:31:08,541 --> 00:31:09,958
We'll hit him up for the '05,
464
00:31:09,958 --> 00:31:11,375
but let's wait until the end.
465
00:31:11,375 --> 00:31:12,791
Let's wait till the end
of the conversation,
466
00:31:12,791 --> 00:31:14,625
hit him up for the 2005.
467
00:31:14,625 --> 00:31:17,500
So, what do we want to... I know he...
468
00:31:17,500 --> 00:31:20,458
I heard that he had 400
bottles, right, of the 2017.
469
00:31:20,458 --> 00:31:22,083
You wanna hit him up for that?
470
00:31:22,083 --> 00:31:24,000
I'm good. I mean, think about it.
471
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,833
This is the pursuit of a
dream. What's it worth?
472
00:31:26,833 --> 00:31:28,250
We need this wine.
473
00:31:28,250 --> 00:31:30,916
We need at least some of the '14.
474
00:31:30,916 --> 00:31:32,333
And we need to share...
475
00:31:32,333 --> 00:31:33,791
And the rest of the '17, right?
476
00:31:33,791 --> 00:31:37,416
We want to get all of
his '17. Is that the plan?
477
00:31:37,416 --> 00:31:39,333
I'm good with
that. What do you think?
478
00:31:39,333 --> 00:31:40,750
I don't wanna go without trying.
479
00:31:40,750 --> 00:31:42,166
What you think, but...
480
00:31:42,166 --> 00:31:43,792
Come on. Chris: Yeah, I'm in.
481
00:31:46,750 --> 00:31:48,416
After some intense negotiation,
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00:31:48,416 --> 00:31:49,833
we decided it was time
483
00:31:49,833 --> 00:31:52,833
to head out for lunch and celebrate.
484
00:32:12,875 --> 00:32:14,500
speaker 3: Hello, are you Alejandro?
485
00:32:14,500 --> 00:32:15,916
Yes, yes, I am he.
486
00:32:15,916 --> 00:32:17,875
Speaker 3: We just wanted
to introduce ourselves to you
487
00:32:17,875 --> 00:32:19,291
and talk to you about the great
488
00:32:19,291 --> 00:32:20,708
wines you're producing from Navaltallar.
489
00:32:20,708 --> 00:32:22,125
Seriously?
490
00:32:22,125 --> 00:32:23,541
Speaker 3: We are
delighted because they told us
491
00:32:23,541 --> 00:32:24,958
you were here.
492
00:32:24,958 --> 00:32:26,375
We wanted to see you because of this wine.
493
00:32:26,375 --> 00:32:27,875
Thank you so
much. I would like to hug you.
494
00:32:27,875 --> 00:32:34,291
Speaker 3: With this wine,
there is no comparison,
495
00:32:34,291 --> 00:32:36,291
it is excellent.
496
00:32:36,291 --> 00:32:37,708
From the soil of Segovia.
497
00:32:37,708 --> 00:32:40,000
Speaker 4: Competing with
what's closer to the river
498
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,208
which is the most popular.
499
00:32:42,208 --> 00:32:44,250
But the wine from our
region is far superior.
500
00:32:44,250 --> 00:32:45,666
Thank you so much.
501
00:32:45,666 --> 00:32:47,083
Speaker 3: Thank you for this wine
502
00:32:47,083 --> 00:32:49,833
that you are making. and
for representing Segovia.
503
00:32:49,833 --> 00:32:54,625
Thank you
from us. See you later.
504
00:32:56,208 --> 00:32:57,583
Hi, Lucio, thank you very much
505
00:32:57,583 --> 00:33:00,041
for coming to eat with us.
506
00:33:00,041 --> 00:33:05,333
Today's dessert is going
to be this bottle of Sherry,
507
00:33:05,333 --> 00:33:07,375
can you explain to us a
little bit about it please?
508
00:33:07,375 --> 00:33:10,791
Lucio del Campo: The reality
of the philosophy behind Sherry
509
00:33:10,791 --> 00:33:12,791
is it is an oxidative aging wine.
510
00:33:12,791 --> 00:33:16,000
It is made in Moncloa,
another region of Spain,
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00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,875
that has been produced
over five generations.
512
00:33:18,875 --> 00:33:21,333
The first bottle is from 1840.
513
00:33:21,333 --> 00:33:26,500
It began as a dry wine,
then it began to age
514
00:33:26,500 --> 00:33:28,791
and the grape, looking for a sweet wine,
515
00:33:28,791 --> 00:33:30,500
that was aged in barrels.
516
00:33:30,500 --> 00:33:32,791
With wine makers that understand this wine,
517
00:33:32,791 --> 00:33:34,708
because it is a complicated process,
518
00:33:34,708 --> 00:33:38,041
to make sure the correct time
passes to ferment the grapes.
519
00:33:38,041 --> 00:33:40,375
I found myself working
with different barrels,
520
00:33:40,375 --> 00:33:42,166
and different flavor combinations.
521
00:33:42,166 --> 00:33:43,625
It was a bit chaotic,
522
00:33:43,625 --> 00:33:46,625
and what I did was play
around like an alchemist,
523
00:33:46,625 --> 00:33:48,416
like a kid playing the lottery.
524
00:33:48,416 --> 00:33:50,666
I was enjoying making combinations
525
00:33:50,666 --> 00:33:55,625
and then creating and aging in barrels.
526
00:33:55,625 --> 00:33:57,917
To create the composition of this wine.
527
00:34:00,250 --> 00:34:02,833
Now it is time for
the last leg of our journey.
528
00:34:02,833 --> 00:34:06,166
We must travel to Portugal
for a complete history
529
00:34:06,166 --> 00:34:08,916
on Iberian wines.
530
00:34:18,958 --> 00:34:20,416
All right, so we're finally here
531
00:34:20,416 --> 00:34:22,583
at the world-famous Domus Pacis Hotel
532
00:34:22,583 --> 00:34:24,541
in Fatima, Portugal.
533
00:34:24,541 --> 00:34:28,083
We've been dragging this luggage
all the way since the bus stop.
534
00:34:28,083 --> 00:34:29,500
So, we're finally here.
535
00:34:29,500 --> 00:34:31,166
We're gonna go check in,
see if we can get some rest
536
00:34:31,166 --> 00:34:32,583
for tomorrow morning.
537
00:34:32,583 --> 00:34:34,000
All right, let's go.
538
00:35:03,708 --> 00:35:05,833
Carlos Evaristo: Edwin, I
want to welcome you to Fatima,
539
00:35:05,833 --> 00:35:08,000
the spiritual heart of the planet
540
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:10,125
and the central region of Portugal,
541
00:35:10,125 --> 00:35:15,083
and it's also the heart of
wine production, red wine.
542
00:35:15,083 --> 00:35:18,750
It was here that it all started in 1445.
543
00:35:18,750 --> 00:35:20,166
Well, thank you for having me.
544
00:35:20,166 --> 00:35:23,041
It's an honor to be here. I appreciate it.
545
00:35:23,041 --> 00:35:24,666
We're high atop
546
00:35:24,666 --> 00:35:26,833
the Serra de Aire mountain range,
547
00:35:26,833 --> 00:35:29,875
and it was here that the
fourth Count of Ourém
548
00:35:29,875 --> 00:35:32,041
decided it would be the best place
549
00:35:32,041 --> 00:35:36,833
for him to plant the red grapes
that he brought from France
550
00:35:36,833 --> 00:35:38,333
and from Italy.
551
00:35:38,333 --> 00:35:39,750
And what year was that?
552
00:35:39,750 --> 00:35:41,166
Do you... do...
553
00:35:41,166 --> 00:35:42,583
In 1445.
554
00:35:42,583 --> 00:35:44,000
Oh, wow. Okay.
555
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:45,416
So, a lot of people don't know that
556
00:35:45,416 --> 00:35:48,541
before 1445 there was no red wine
557
00:35:48,541 --> 00:35:49,958
in Portugal.
558
00:35:49,958 --> 00:35:51,500
Oh, okay. Interesting.
559
00:35:51,500 --> 00:35:53,625
So, that's one
of the secrets of Fatima.
560
00:35:53,625 --> 00:35:55,041
Oh, fantastic.
561
00:35:55,041 --> 00:35:56,458
Well, again, thanks for bringing me here.
562
00:35:56,458 --> 00:35:57,875
Beautiful place here.
563
00:35:57,875 --> 00:36:01,250
Very peaceful and just beautiful.
564
00:36:01,250 --> 00:36:03,041
Well, let's show you around.
565
00:36:03,041 --> 00:36:04,458
Thank you, sir.
566
00:36:29,708 --> 00:36:31,083
We're outside of Castle Ourém,
567
00:36:31,083 --> 00:36:34,333
and you said this is where
the original barrels of wine
568
00:36:34,333 --> 00:36:36,833
were brought up to the castle
through this ancient road,
569
00:36:36,833 --> 00:36:38,250
right up through here.
570
00:36:38,250 --> 00:36:41,208
It's amazing.
571
00:36:41,208 --> 00:36:43,916
Edwin, welcome
to the Castle of Ourém,
572
00:36:43,916 --> 00:36:46,166
and here, at the medieval restaurant,
573
00:36:46,166 --> 00:36:47,583
is headquartered
574
00:36:47,583 --> 00:36:51,083
the Royal Confraternity of Medieval Wine.
575
00:36:51,083 --> 00:36:52,833
Now, let's have a seat here.
576
00:36:52,833 --> 00:36:56,541
You can have a seat right
here at the royal table,
577
00:36:56,541 --> 00:37:00,791
and I'm gonna give you a
little history lesson on wine.
578
00:37:00,791 --> 00:37:02,833
How about that?
579
00:37:02,833 --> 00:37:08,583
Well, the first thing,
medieval wine really begins
580
00:37:08,583 --> 00:37:11,375
under the Templar knights,
and the Templar knights
581
00:37:11,375 --> 00:37:13,041
were masters of this region.
582
00:37:13,041 --> 00:37:14,666
They have their headquarters in Tomar
583
00:37:14,666 --> 00:37:18,250
not too far away from
here, and this castle was also
584
00:37:18,250 --> 00:37:21,083
one of the Templar castles.
585
00:37:21,083 --> 00:37:24,791
The Templars not only
controlled all of the commerce
586
00:37:24,791 --> 00:37:27,791
throughout all of Europe to the Holy Land,
587
00:37:27,791 --> 00:37:31,708
they served as a banking institution,
588
00:37:31,708 --> 00:37:35,833
whereas you could deposit your money
589
00:37:35,833 --> 00:37:39,333
at one of the particular banks.
590
00:37:39,333 --> 00:37:41,041
The bank is a very interesting word,
591
00:37:41,041 --> 00:37:43,708
because it's just... it's a bench.
592
00:37:43,708 --> 00:37:47,125
They sat at a bench in the marketplace,
593
00:37:47,125 --> 00:37:49,291
and if you were a wine merchant
594
00:37:49,291 --> 00:37:53,333
and you went to buy or sell your wine,
595
00:37:53,333 --> 00:37:57,833
it was safer for you to
go to a Templar bank,
596
00:37:57,833 --> 00:38:01,791
because you would deposit
your money at the bank
597
00:38:01,791 --> 00:38:04,333
where you lived and then, on your journey
598
00:38:04,333 --> 00:38:07,291
throughout Europe, you could withdraw
599
00:38:07,291 --> 00:38:10,583
and make payments and they would take
600
00:38:10,583 --> 00:38:12,375
a modest 10%.
601
00:38:12,375 --> 00:38:13,791
I see.
602
00:38:13,791 --> 00:38:16,000
And that was, of
course, the downfall of them,
603
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:19,583
because the king of France
wanted the whole banking system
604
00:38:19,583 --> 00:38:21,916
so he could control it
himself, and he had a few debts
605
00:38:21,916 --> 00:38:24,750
to the bank as well, so.
606
00:38:24,750 --> 00:38:27,750
But the interesting
thing about the Templars
607
00:38:27,750 --> 00:38:30,500
was they were very faith-oriented
608
00:38:30,500 --> 00:38:35,375
in their wine drinking, and that meant that
609
00:38:35,375 --> 00:38:43,417
they saw wine and
bread and olive oil, olives,
610
00:38:43,542 --> 00:38:50,583
as the three most sacred
things in consumption possible,
611
00:38:50,583 --> 00:38:52,875
and in the Mediterranean diet.
612
00:38:52,875 --> 00:38:56,208
And that went back to
the time of the Romans.
613
00:38:56,208 --> 00:39:01,083
Most of the regional
farmers here in Portugal,
614
00:39:01,083 --> 00:39:06,541
in this area here, they cultivated wheat
615
00:39:06,541 --> 00:39:10,625
to produce bread,
olives to produce olive oil,
616
00:39:10,625 --> 00:39:15,041
and grapes to produce wine.
617
00:39:15,041 --> 00:39:21,166
The sacredness of the
wine that we hold today
618
00:39:21,166 --> 00:39:23,416
is the symbol of the blood.
619
00:39:23,416 --> 00:39:26,666
And the symbol of the blood
comes with the institution
620
00:39:26,666 --> 00:39:29,208
of the Eucharist in the Last Supper.
621
00:39:29,208 --> 00:39:33,625
So, Jesus himself took at the Last Supper
622
00:39:33,625 --> 00:39:40,666
these three elements of
wine, grapes, of wheat, bread,
623
00:39:40,666 --> 00:39:43,416
and olives and olive oil.
624
00:39:43,416 --> 00:39:46,500
And he did this in the Last Supper
625
00:39:46,500 --> 00:39:51,083
because he turned the bread into his body,
626
00:39:51,083 --> 00:39:54,041
he turned the wine into his blood,
627
00:39:54,041 --> 00:39:58,458
and then he went and suffered his agony
628
00:39:58,458 --> 00:40:01,916
in the Mount of Olives, Gethsemane.
629
00:40:01,916 --> 00:40:07,583
So, by suffering this passion,
by going through the Eucharist,
630
00:40:07,583 --> 00:40:11,833
and then by being sacrificed on the cross,
631
00:40:11,833 --> 00:40:15,875
Christ in symbolism and in fact
632
00:40:15,875 --> 00:40:19,541
in the transubstantiation
that the Catholics believe
633
00:40:19,541 --> 00:40:22,916
made these elements sacred.
634
00:40:22,916 --> 00:40:27,500
And so, in the Middle Ages,
when you would, for example,
635
00:40:27,500 --> 00:40:30,750
spill accidentally some wine, even though
636
00:40:30,750 --> 00:40:33,666
it's not consecrated wine,
because it reminded you
637
00:40:33,666 --> 00:40:37,583
of the Last Supper, you would immediately
638
00:40:37,583 --> 00:40:40,833
take some fine cloth and absorb it.
639
00:40:40,833 --> 00:40:42,958
If you dropped some
bread, you would pick it up
640
00:40:42,958 --> 00:40:44,666
and you would kiss it.
641
00:40:44,666 --> 00:40:46,750
And it was the reverence that was given
642
00:40:46,750 --> 00:40:51,958
to the symbol of wine and
bread because of the institution
643
00:40:51,958 --> 00:40:53,375
and because of Christ.
644
00:40:53,375 --> 00:40:56,958
So, the Templars, who protected
the Temple of Jerusalem,
645
00:40:56,958 --> 00:40:59,916
were the ones that were
also, traditionally, the guardians
646
00:40:59,916 --> 00:41:03,291
of the Holy Grail, and,
of course, the Holy Grail,
647
00:41:03,291 --> 00:41:07,541
which held the sacred
wine at the Last Supper.
648
00:41:07,541 --> 00:41:09,833
So, that was the cup of cups.
649
00:41:09,833 --> 00:41:12,000
They also instituted
something very interesting,
650
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:16,708
which is the mystical transfer of relics.
651
00:41:16,708 --> 00:41:22,416
You could have an original
relic and you could make a replica
652
00:41:22,416 --> 00:41:28,916
of that relic almost equal,
or maybe even coequal,
653
00:41:28,916 --> 00:41:33,375
to the original by having
a bit of the real relic
654
00:41:33,375 --> 00:41:36,083
put into the other one, the essence.
655
00:41:36,083 --> 00:41:40,250
So, the mystical transfer
also was later transferred
656
00:41:40,250 --> 00:41:41,666
into the wine.
657
00:41:41,666 --> 00:41:44,416
And I remember you telling
me that you went to a winery
658
00:41:44,416 --> 00:41:47,375
where they had given you to sample
659
00:41:47,375 --> 00:41:49,166
some 500 year old wine.
660
00:41:49,166 --> 00:41:51,583
Yes, that's right. It's a Fondillón.
661
00:41:51,583 --> 00:41:59,625
We got to sample a 1944 vintage,
but it had 500 years of history.
662
00:42:00,792 --> 00:42:05,083
So, in essence, we were
drinking a 500 year old wine,
663
00:42:05,083 --> 00:42:08,458
but it was bottled in 1944.
664
00:42:08,458 --> 00:42:13,666
But basically, we got to
drink from the actual cask
665
00:42:13,666 --> 00:42:18,000
with a venencia, they call it venencia.
666
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:20,250
He dipped it in there
with a bamboo venencia,
667
00:42:20,250 --> 00:42:22,750
and he poured it in, and
we all got the sample,
668
00:42:22,750 --> 00:42:25,125
and he said there's 500 years of history.
669
00:42:25,125 --> 00:42:27,791
And he explained to us that
the enzymes from the original,
670
00:42:27,791 --> 00:42:29,625
from 500 years ago, are still in this wine.
671
00:42:29,625 --> 00:42:32,000
So, you're still drinking
a 500 year old wine,
672
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:35,458
because he... every year they transfer 10%
673
00:42:35,458 --> 00:42:39,166
off of this barrel to the new vintage,
674
00:42:39,166 --> 00:42:42,208
and then the following
year they transfer 10% back
675
00:42:42,208 --> 00:42:44,958
to this new barrel of this new vintage,
676
00:42:44,958 --> 00:42:49,750
and the lineage just continues until today.
677
00:42:49,750 --> 00:42:52,083
So, it was a very special occasion
678
00:42:52,083 --> 00:42:53,625
for us to be able to do that.
679
00:42:53,625 --> 00:42:56,958
They allowed me to sign my
name on the cask and, yeah.
680
00:42:56,958 --> 00:43:00,125
Well, and that
is a Templar tradition.
681
00:43:00,125 --> 00:43:05,125
That is how the Templars
transferred to their wine
682
00:43:05,125 --> 00:43:09,875
the sacredness of the wine
from the cup of the Last Supper.
683
00:43:09,875 --> 00:43:12,083
They would take some wine, put it in...
684
00:43:12,083 --> 00:43:14,791
They had put it in
the last... in the goblet
685
00:43:14,791 --> 00:43:17,291
of the Last Supper, the Holy Grail,
686
00:43:17,291 --> 00:43:22,000
and then continue to
transfer part of that wine
687
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:23,833
to the new wine that they produced
688
00:43:23,833 --> 00:43:27,208
so that they became the
guardians of the tradition
689
00:43:27,208 --> 00:43:29,458
of the wine from the Holy Grail.
690
00:43:29,458 --> 00:43:30,875
From the...
691
00:43:30,875 --> 00:43:32,708
From the actual Holy Grail
692
00:43:32,708 --> 00:43:37,000
that they kept, and it is
today in Valencia, in Spain.
693
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:39,750
And that's why it's called a venencia.
694
00:43:39,750 --> 00:43:41,666
We were invited
there and inducted there.
695
00:43:41,666 --> 00:43:43,083
Exactly.
696
00:43:43,083 --> 00:43:45,708
Well, I'm gonna give you some of this wine,
697
00:43:45,708 --> 00:43:48,791
and you're gonna tell
me if it tastes that old.
698
00:43:48,791 --> 00:43:51,500
Okay.
699
00:43:53,333 --> 00:43:54,750
Wow.
700
00:43:59,625 --> 00:44:04,250
Wow, it has a very good smell to it still.
701
00:44:04,250 --> 00:44:06,583
Salud.
702
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:15,541
Wow.
703
00:44:15,541 --> 00:44:18,875
Now you are officially a knight.
704
00:44:18,875 --> 00:44:21,166
It still has alcohol.
705
00:44:21,166 --> 00:44:23,583
It's amazing.
706
00:44:28,042 --> 00:44:29,666
Very honored, sir. Thank you very much.
707
00:44:29,666 --> 00:44:31,083
Delicious.
708
00:44:31,083 --> 00:44:32,500
Well, let me show you around
709
00:44:32,500 --> 00:44:33,916
and show you some of the artifacts
710
00:44:33,916 --> 00:44:35,541
and tell you a little bit
more about the history.
711
00:44:35,541 --> 00:44:37,208
Sure, can I bring my goblet?
712
00:44:37,208 --> 00:44:39,833
Absolutely, by all means.
713
00:44:39,833 --> 00:44:42,875
All right.
714
00:44:42,875 --> 00:44:46,583
So, as you know,
I'm an archaeologist,
715
00:44:46,583 --> 00:44:49,041
and these are some of the artifacts
716
00:44:49,041 --> 00:44:51,375
that I've found here in the castle
717
00:44:51,375 --> 00:44:53,708
over the last 30 years.
718
00:44:53,708 --> 00:44:57,208
And you can see Templar headstones,
719
00:44:57,208 --> 00:45:00,541
you can see some of the older headstones,
720
00:45:00,541 --> 00:45:06,083
and these are from the
castle that the count built,
721
00:45:06,083 --> 00:45:10,375
his palace, in 1445,
exactly at the same time
722
00:45:10,375 --> 00:45:13,250
that he started producing red wine.
723
00:45:13,250 --> 00:45:14,916
And it's very interesting to see.
724
00:45:14,916 --> 00:45:19,083
These are some of the
parts of the vaulted ceilings
725
00:45:19,083 --> 00:45:22,166
of the halls, and in one of the halls,
726
00:45:22,166 --> 00:45:24,500
here we have...
727
00:45:24,500 --> 00:45:26,041
Oh yes, grapes. Carlos: Grapes.
728
00:45:26,041 --> 00:45:27,541
Yeah, grapes.
729
00:45:27,541 --> 00:45:30,458
So, you can see how proud he was
730
00:45:30,458 --> 00:45:35,083
that he had that immortalized
on one of the decor
731
00:45:35,083 --> 00:45:37,208
of the vaulted ceilings.
732
00:45:37,208 --> 00:45:38,625
Unbelievable.
733
00:45:38,625 --> 00:45:40,041
We also found...
734
00:45:40,041 --> 00:45:41,458
It also proves that they already had
735
00:45:41,458 --> 00:45:42,875
the grapes here.
736
00:45:42,875 --> 00:45:45,250
Exactly, exactly, exactly.
737
00:45:45,250 --> 00:45:48,916
You can also see in some of the tombstones
738
00:45:48,916 --> 00:45:51,416
the Jewish star of David.
739
00:45:51,416 --> 00:45:54,875
So, again, his connection
to the wine production
740
00:45:54,875 --> 00:45:59,041
of the Jewish society here that was part
741
00:45:59,041 --> 00:46:01,750
of the Jewry kosher wine.
742
00:46:01,750 --> 00:46:04,916
We also found a lot of these amphoras,
743
00:46:04,916 --> 00:46:06,333
parts of them.
744
00:46:06,333 --> 00:46:10,666
This is a reconstruction of what
a Roman amphora would look like.
745
00:46:10,666 --> 00:46:13,625
And these were used,
basically, since Phoenician times
746
00:46:13,625 --> 00:46:19,541
to transport wine on ships
across the Mediterranean.
747
00:46:19,541 --> 00:46:23,791
So, we are certain that he also imported
748
00:46:23,791 --> 00:46:27,875
and exported his wine all over Portugal
749
00:46:27,875 --> 00:46:30,208
and gave origin to red wine.
750
00:46:30,208 --> 00:46:34,166
Red wine that was produced in his time
751
00:46:34,166 --> 00:46:37,875
is 80% white grapes.
752
00:46:37,875 --> 00:46:39,541
Well, this is... it's really...
753
00:46:39,541 --> 00:46:41,166
It's still getting... it's getting better
754
00:46:41,166 --> 00:46:42,750
since you poured it out.
755
00:46:42,750 --> 00:46:44,458
I'm glad you enjoyed it.
756
00:46:44,458 --> 00:46:47,041
Let's go look at some more artifacts.
757
00:46:47,041 --> 00:46:48,541
Absolutely.
758
00:46:48,541 --> 00:46:49,958
Some of the artifacts here
759
00:46:49,958 --> 00:46:52,291
are connected with the history of Portugal
760
00:46:52,291 --> 00:46:54,875
and also with the Discoveries,
and they're all connected
761
00:46:54,875 --> 00:46:56,291
with wine.
762
00:46:56,291 --> 00:46:57,875
Wine was at the heart of the Discoveries
763
00:46:57,875 --> 00:47:00,041
from the very beginning.
764
00:47:00,041 --> 00:47:04,000
This is the copy of the
document of extinction
765
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:06,708
of the Templar Order, and the Templar Order
766
00:47:06,708 --> 00:47:11,083
was extinct on Friday,
on a Friday the 13th,
767
00:47:11,083 --> 00:47:15,791
and that's why to this
day it's a day of omen,
768
00:47:15,791 --> 00:47:19,458
of bad luck, because the most powerful,
769
00:47:19,458 --> 00:47:23,791
important order that controlled
all of the commerce in the world
770
00:47:23,791 --> 00:47:27,833
and all of the trade and banking system
771
00:47:27,833 --> 00:47:33,125
was unjustly convicted and declared extinct
772
00:47:33,125 --> 00:47:36,208
on Friday the 13th of October.
773
00:47:36,208 --> 00:47:39,666
And that's why Friday the
13th has been a bad luck day
774
00:47:39,666 --> 00:47:41,083
ever since.
775
00:47:41,083 --> 00:47:45,791
We know that after the
collapse of the Templars
776
00:47:45,791 --> 00:47:49,041
the Portuguese kings took the Order,
777
00:47:49,041 --> 00:47:52,083
the Templar Order, and resurrected it
778
00:47:52,083 --> 00:47:53,708
as the Order of Christ.
779
00:47:53,708 --> 00:47:58,041
And the Order of Christ
became the single enterprise
780
00:47:58,041 --> 00:47:59,833
during the Discoveries.
781
00:47:59,833 --> 00:48:03,583
They owned everything
that was being discovered,
782
00:48:03,583 --> 00:48:05,750
all the commerce,
everything that was coming in
783
00:48:05,750 --> 00:48:08,041
and going out, so they
controlled everything.
784
00:48:08,041 --> 00:48:11,166
They controlled the water routes
to India and everywhere else.
785
00:48:11,166 --> 00:48:14,250
Two interesting stories
involving wine in this castle.
786
00:48:14,250 --> 00:48:19,166
One has to do with the struggle
for power between two brothers.
787
00:48:19,166 --> 00:48:27,125
There was a king who had
married a princess from Spain
788
00:48:27,125 --> 00:48:30,791
who happened to have webbed feet,
789
00:48:30,791 --> 00:48:33,375
and, back in the age, if you were born
790
00:48:33,375 --> 00:48:37,625
with webbed feet like this,
some people believed that
791
00:48:37,625 --> 00:48:43,875
it was because the mother
had had relations with the devil,
792
00:48:43,875 --> 00:48:47,916
who had cloven hooves, like a hoof.
793
00:48:47,916 --> 00:48:54,083
So, this poor girl was born
with, you know, cleft feet,
794
00:48:54,083 --> 00:48:59,250
and the brother of the
king, who was in France,
795
00:48:59,250 --> 00:49:03,083
and wanted... he coveted the throne,
796
00:49:03,083 --> 00:49:06,208
he thought of a way by spreading rumors
797
00:49:06,208 --> 00:49:07,958
through the church, through the...
798
00:49:07,958 --> 00:49:09,875
His priests that worked for him,
799
00:49:09,875 --> 00:49:12,791
to spread the rumor that she was, in fact,
800
00:49:12,791 --> 00:49:16,250
bewitching the king and the kingdom
801
00:49:16,250 --> 00:49:19,375
and everything else because she was
802
00:49:19,375 --> 00:49:21,500
the Satan's daughter.
803
00:49:21,500 --> 00:49:27,458
So, what he had planned
was he had her captured
804
00:49:27,458 --> 00:49:29,666
as she was coming out of mass one day
805
00:49:29,666 --> 00:49:32,250
in Coimbra and they rode her all...
806
00:49:32,250 --> 00:49:34,333
They rode the horse all the way down
807
00:49:34,333 --> 00:49:36,916
with her on the horse to Ourém Castle,
808
00:49:36,916 --> 00:49:39,583
which was considered unconquerable.
809
00:49:39,583 --> 00:49:42,625
And they locked her up
in the highest tower here,
810
00:49:42,625 --> 00:49:44,041
which is... still has her name,
811
00:49:44,041 --> 00:49:45,833
Donna Marzia, yeah.
812
00:49:45,833 --> 00:49:48,208
And she was there for seven years,
813
00:49:48,208 --> 00:49:49,625
locked in the tower.
814
00:49:49,625 --> 00:49:52,125
Her husband laid siege to the castle,
815
00:49:52,125 --> 00:49:55,625
but since it was impregnable,
he wasn't able to let her go.
816
00:49:55,625 --> 00:49:57,291
I mean, he wasn't able to rescue her.
817
00:49:57,291 --> 00:50:01,791
And so, he lost his kingdom to his brother
818
00:50:01,791 --> 00:50:03,500
and he lost his bride.
819
00:50:03,500 --> 00:50:06,833
And for seven years she
looked out the window
820
00:50:06,833 --> 00:50:10,333
and the only thing she
could see were the vineyards.
821
00:50:10,333 --> 00:50:13,958
And so, there is a wine today
that's named after Donna Marzia.
822
00:50:13,958 --> 00:50:15,500
It's the... one of the highest rated
823
00:50:15,500 --> 00:50:18,833
wines of Ourém, and it's named after her
824
00:50:18,833 --> 00:50:22,000
because she was there for all these years.
825
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:27,000
We're gonna talk about
the use of wine in medicine,
826
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:30,541
in medieval medicine especially, and also
827
00:50:30,541 --> 00:50:35,000
in liturgical celebrations
in the mass in the church.
828
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:40,375
We know that, for example,
the wine that's used in the mass
829
00:50:40,375 --> 00:50:45,791
was red wine because Christ used red wine
830
00:50:45,791 --> 00:50:48,416
to symbolize his blood.
831
00:50:48,416 --> 00:50:54,166
The wine, however, has a
certain percentage of water
832
00:50:54,166 --> 00:50:55,958
that's poured into it by the priest
833
00:50:55,958 --> 00:50:59,291
before the consecration,
and that is to remind us
834
00:50:59,291 --> 00:51:01,666
of the fact that when
Christ was on the cross,
835
00:51:01,666 --> 00:51:05,416
he was lanced by the
centurion and blood and water
836
00:51:05,416 --> 00:51:07,916
gushed from the wound in his side.
837
00:51:07,916 --> 00:51:10,708
So, that tradition has been maintained
838
00:51:10,708 --> 00:51:13,375
and especially within the church.
839
00:51:13,375 --> 00:51:19,125
The queen Saint Elizabeth
of Portugal's Santa Isabel,
840
00:51:19,125 --> 00:51:22,541
who was married to King
Denis, they restored the Order,
841
00:51:22,541 --> 00:51:24,708
the Templar Order, as the Order of Christ,
842
00:51:24,708 --> 00:51:27,375
and she introduced
what's called the Holy Spirit,
843
00:51:27,375 --> 00:51:30,625
the Feast of the Holy Spirit,
in all throughout Portugal,
844
00:51:30,625 --> 00:51:32,166
especially in Tomar.
845
00:51:32,166 --> 00:51:35,041
And one of the things
they did in the Middle Ages
846
00:51:35,041 --> 00:51:37,416
was take this crown, which was consecrated
847
00:51:37,416 --> 00:51:40,458
to the Holy Spirit and had
this platter underneath it,
848
00:51:40,458 --> 00:51:42,583
what they did was they poured wine
849
00:51:42,583 --> 00:51:44,000
through the crown,
850
00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:47,541
and it symbolized the Holy Spirit.
851
00:51:47,541 --> 00:51:50,791
And then the wine would
come out of these apertures here
852
00:51:50,791 --> 00:51:56,125
into this basin, and then,
through these little openings
853
00:51:56,125 --> 00:51:59,250
to the glasses that would be here below.
854
00:51:59,250 --> 00:52:01,791
And then they would distribute the wine
855
00:52:01,791 --> 00:52:05,083
to the people together with the bread.
856
00:52:05,083 --> 00:52:08,708
Now, Saint Hildegard was another saint
857
00:52:08,708 --> 00:52:12,333
that took medicinal
wine to a different level.
858
00:52:12,333 --> 00:52:18,666
She made a special concoction of wine
859
00:52:18,666 --> 00:52:24,416
with different herbs and
spices, and they are still produced
860
00:52:24,416 --> 00:52:25,833
today.
861
00:52:25,833 --> 00:52:29,791
They're using the same
recipes that she had back then.
862
00:52:29,791 --> 00:52:31,416
Like a healing wine or something.
863
00:52:31,416 --> 00:52:33,041
It's like a healing wine.
864
00:52:33,041 --> 00:52:37,750
Now, it's similar in recipe
to what was done here
865
00:52:37,750 --> 00:52:41,166
and what was done in
the Middle Ages with relics.
866
00:52:41,166 --> 00:52:46,291
They also poured wine
through the skulls of the saints
867
00:52:46,291 --> 00:52:50,000
into a basin, which then was distributed.
868
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:52,958
This wine was distributed to the pilgrims
869
00:52:52,958 --> 00:52:55,833
that visited the shrine, and
it was supposed to help them
870
00:52:55,833 --> 00:52:59,000
with their ailments and heal them.
871
00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:02,333
But there were other
traditions involving wine,
872
00:53:02,333 --> 00:53:07,166
and one of them was to prevent poisoning
873
00:53:07,166 --> 00:53:08,583
with cyanide.
874
00:53:08,583 --> 00:53:12,791
The fourth Count of Ourém is represented
875
00:53:12,791 --> 00:53:15,625
in the famous, "Saint Vincent's Panels,"
876
00:53:15,625 --> 00:53:20,291
this painting that depicts
him wearing the clothes
877
00:53:20,291 --> 00:53:24,000
that we have adapted for the confraternity
878
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:28,125
and his hat, his famous hat,
but also wearing around his neck
879
00:53:28,125 --> 00:53:32,625
a reliquary with a little glass flask,
880
00:53:32,625 --> 00:53:35,583
and this reliquary still exists.
881
00:53:35,583 --> 00:53:38,958
It is in the treasury here
of the Collegiate See,
882
00:53:38,958 --> 00:53:43,166
and what it contains, I found, is milk
883
00:53:43,166 --> 00:53:44,708
from the blessed Virgin Mary.
884
00:53:44,708 --> 00:53:46,291
You say, "Well, how can you have milk
885
00:53:46,291 --> 00:53:48,000
from the blessed Virgin Mary?"
886
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:51,000
Well, he went on pilgrimage to Bethlehem,
887
00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:54,916
and in Bethlehem there
is the Grotto of the Milk.
888
00:53:54,916 --> 00:53:59,291
It's just a white limestone chalk cave.
889
00:53:59,291 --> 00:54:00,708
And the knights...
890
00:54:00,708 --> 00:54:02,125
That's where they stayed.
891
00:54:02,125 --> 00:54:05,375
Exactly, and the
knights would take this chalk,
892
00:54:05,375 --> 00:54:08,875
bring it back in bags, put
it in these special little vials
893
00:54:08,875 --> 00:54:11,291
around their neck, so that when they went
894
00:54:11,291 --> 00:54:16,166
to friends and other places to have wine,
895
00:54:16,166 --> 00:54:18,500
they wouldn't risk being poisoned
896
00:54:18,500 --> 00:54:22,166
because they would pour
a little bit of that chalk
897
00:54:22,166 --> 00:54:27,958
into the goblet and
that... this I found out,
898
00:54:27,958 --> 00:54:33,166
this chalk absorbs arsenic
in wine and leaves it
899
00:54:33,166 --> 00:54:36,000
as a film on the bottom of the glass.
900
00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:37,750
And so, even if they were poisoned,
901
00:54:37,750 --> 00:54:40,250
they would consider
that this was miraculous.
902
00:54:40,250 --> 00:54:42,208
It was the milk of our lady.
903
00:54:42,208 --> 00:54:43,625
They also had other things.
904
00:54:43,625 --> 00:54:47,458
They had stones from
Jerusalem, or bezoar stones,
905
00:54:47,458 --> 00:54:54,041
which were made from
the gallstones of the camels
906
00:54:54,041 --> 00:54:57,000
and other animals, and
they also absorbed arsenic
907
00:54:57,000 --> 00:54:59,000
in wine.
908
00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:00,541
And here we have one of these...
909
00:55:00,541 --> 00:55:02,750
We're gonna make sure that your wine
910
00:55:02,750 --> 00:55:04,166
hasn't been poisoned.
911
00:55:04,166 --> 00:55:05,583
I didn't poison it.
912
00:55:05,583 --> 00:55:07,125
Yeah.
913
00:55:07,125 --> 00:55:13,875
Surely don't want to
fall over here in a minute.
914
00:55:13,875 --> 00:55:16,083
Ah, true testament to my faith right there.
915
00:55:16,083 --> 00:55:17,958
Just drink it down, right?
916
00:55:17,958 --> 00:55:20,291
Then lastly what we have here
917
00:55:20,291 --> 00:55:25,125
is an interesting reliquary
that has a relic of Saint Blaise
918
00:55:25,125 --> 00:55:30,125
and part of the incorrupt
finger of San Diego,
919
00:55:30,125 --> 00:55:35,000
the one after whom San
Diego in California is named.
920
00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:36,791
He was a Franciscan monk.
921
00:55:36,791 --> 00:55:41,041
And San Diego of Alcalá... this relic,
922
00:55:41,041 --> 00:55:47,000
which is a mummified
finger, was owned by Blaise,
923
00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:54,250
who was the Count of Alcalá,
and he had this bag made
924
00:55:54,250 --> 00:55:57,791
so that he could carry
this finger around with him.
925
00:55:57,791 --> 00:56:04,166
And what he used as an
antivenom was the powder that...
926
00:56:04,166 --> 00:56:06,708
From the skin that flaked off.
927
00:56:06,708 --> 00:56:08,875
And as you can see, this has openings,
928
00:56:08,875 --> 00:56:10,875
much like a salt or pepper shaker,
929
00:56:10,875 --> 00:56:13,958
and he would shake this into his wine,
930
00:56:13,958 --> 00:56:16,625
and that would keep him, he thought,
931
00:56:16,625 --> 00:56:18,500
from being poisoned.
932
00:56:18,500 --> 00:56:21,750
Later on, this became
a trend to the point that
933
00:56:21,750 --> 00:56:26,541
in the 19th century many
of the mummies of Egypt
934
00:56:26,541 --> 00:56:29,875
were exhumed by some of the tribes
935
00:56:29,875 --> 00:56:33,333
and local inhabitants and sold to Europeans
936
00:56:33,333 --> 00:56:36,666
to be ground into mummy dust.
937
00:56:36,666 --> 00:56:40,166
Mummy dust, which was
medicinal, and it was also put
938
00:56:40,166 --> 00:56:43,291
into your wine to keep
you from being poisoned.
939
00:56:43,291 --> 00:56:45,250
Kind of like a medieval snake oil.
940
00:56:45,250 --> 00:56:47,250
Exactly.
941
00:56:47,250 --> 00:56:52,916
Now, I'd like you to taste
some of this medicinal wine,
942
00:56:52,916 --> 00:56:56,833
and you tell me what you think about this.
943
00:56:56,833 --> 00:56:59,833
Let's see here. Get some more in there.
944
00:56:59,833 --> 00:57:01,791
It's... don't let it deceive you.
945
00:57:01,791 --> 00:57:03,291
It's very strong.
946
00:57:03,291 --> 00:57:06,625
Really? Carlos: Yeah.
947
00:57:06,625 --> 00:57:09,166
It smells like medicine, almost.
948
00:57:09,166 --> 00:57:12,292
And what does it taste like?
949
00:57:15,833 --> 00:57:17,958
Actually, it tastes pretty good.
950
00:57:17,958 --> 00:57:22,333
Saint Hildegarde.
951
00:57:22,333 --> 00:57:26,375
I could drink that.
952
00:57:26,375 --> 00:57:29,250
Well, I'll probably start
feeling better tomorrow.
953
00:57:29,250 --> 00:57:31,875
Let's hope so.
954
00:57:31,875 --> 00:57:34,416
Well, if it won't kill you,
it'll make it better, right?
955
00:57:34,416 --> 00:57:36,291
There you go.
956
00:57:36,291 --> 00:57:39,375
I gave it a shot.
957
00:57:39,375 --> 00:57:40,791
Edwin, you're a member
958
00:57:40,791 --> 00:57:42,750
of the Confraternity of Saint Nuno,
959
00:57:42,750 --> 00:57:45,083
the Holy Constable, and here he is.
960
00:57:45,083 --> 00:57:47,875
He was the third count of the castle.
961
00:57:47,875 --> 00:57:52,166
And Nuno has a special connection to wine
962
00:57:52,166 --> 00:57:55,666
that maybe you're not
going to be very happy about.
963
00:57:55,666 --> 00:57:58,708
He forbade wine in the army.
964
00:57:58,708 --> 00:58:04,250
He forbade drinking and
he forbade prostitutes
965
00:58:04,250 --> 00:58:08,500
and sex because he
wanted his army disciplined
966
00:58:08,500 --> 00:58:12,458
because they were outnumbered
by the Castilian forces 15 to 1.
967
00:58:12,458 --> 00:58:13,875
Yeah, that makes sense.
968
00:58:13,875 --> 00:58:15,958
And he won because of that.
969
00:58:15,958 --> 00:58:18,458
Now, King John the II also wanted
970
00:58:18,458 --> 00:58:22,541
this type of discipline
during the Discoveries,
971
00:58:22,541 --> 00:58:29,458
and what he created, or wrote,
was the, "Code of Postures,"
972
00:58:29,458 --> 00:58:33,166
that became sort of like
an unofficial rulebook.
973
00:58:33,166 --> 00:58:38,583
But at the same time, it was the first law
974
00:58:38,583 --> 00:58:43,875
that was passed into effect
forbidding the abuse of wine.
975
00:58:43,875 --> 00:58:51,917
He said that if any man drank
more than a spoonful of wine
976
00:58:53,500 --> 00:58:55,541
in a glass of water,
977
00:58:55,541 --> 00:58:59,291
that he was considered a drunkard.
978
00:58:59,291 --> 00:59:05,041
And so, let's try out
here what the wine tasted
979
00:59:05,041 --> 00:59:07,791
at the time of John the II.
980
00:59:07,791 --> 00:59:11,167
Oh boy, that's old stuff.
981
00:59:13,875 --> 00:59:15,500
I'm game.
982
00:59:15,500 --> 00:59:18,166
And now, water.
983
00:59:18,166 --> 00:59:22,791
Once again, going back to the mass.
984
00:59:22,791 --> 00:59:26,041
The water in the wine.
985
00:59:26,041 --> 00:59:30,125
So, this is what you would have
in the time of the Discoveries
986
00:59:30,125 --> 00:59:33,000
of John the II if you were working here
987
00:59:33,000 --> 00:59:34,833
in Portugal.
988
00:59:40,708 --> 00:59:44,291
Tastes like water.
989
00:59:44,291 --> 00:59:48,041
A little bit of grape water.
990
00:59:48,041 --> 00:59:49,708
Mostly water, it doesn't even taste
991
00:59:49,708 --> 00:59:51,375
like alcohol at all.
992
00:59:51,375 --> 00:59:53,000
Well, what if I were to tell you
993
00:59:53,000 --> 00:59:55,916
that that is what some
of the archaeologists
994
00:59:55,916 --> 00:59:58,666
believe the wine at the Last Supper
995
00:59:58,666 --> 01:00:00,125
actually tasted like?
996
01:00:00,125 --> 01:00:01,541
Like water.
997
01:00:01,541 --> 01:00:04,125
It was very, very light.
998
01:00:04,125 --> 01:00:08,791
It was not heavily alcoholic.
999
01:00:08,791 --> 01:00:11,666
And even its color
would be similar to this,
1000
01:00:11,666 --> 01:00:15,333
sort of like a brown, a dark brown.
1001
01:00:15,333 --> 01:00:17,083
Now, what's very interesting
1002
01:00:17,083 --> 01:00:19,750
is that if you were on one of the ships
1003
01:00:19,750 --> 01:00:24,250
and you were one of the explorers
1004
01:00:24,250 --> 01:00:27,083
in the Discoveries under John the II,
1005
01:00:27,083 --> 01:00:29,875
you would get a very good supply of wine,
1006
01:00:29,875 --> 01:00:33,000
and you wouldn't have
to be rationed like this,
1007
01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:36,250
and you wouldn't be considered a drunkard
1008
01:00:36,250 --> 01:00:38,791
if you consumed more wine.
1009
01:00:38,791 --> 01:00:41,916
Basically, because you
were going out in a ship
1010
01:00:41,916 --> 01:00:45,291
to the unknown, you didn't
know how long it would be
1011
01:00:45,291 --> 01:00:47,458
before you would find land again.
1012
01:00:47,458 --> 01:00:51,083
People would probably start to mutiny,
1013
01:00:51,083 --> 01:00:53,375
they'd probably start to hallucinate,
1014
01:00:53,375 --> 01:00:56,083
and so the wine kept them under control.
1015
01:00:56,083 --> 01:00:57,500
So, they allowed them.
1016
01:00:57,500 --> 01:01:00,000
They allowed them to drink off
1017
01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:02,625
on their trips in the middle of nowhere
1018
01:01:02,625 --> 01:01:08,333
because it kept them happy
and it kept them worry-free,
1019
01:01:08,333 --> 01:01:10,125
distracted, pretty much distracted.
1020
01:01:10,125 --> 01:01:14,083
So, wine also has that effect on people.
1021
01:01:14,083 --> 01:01:19,625
Do you know that the
wine from Jerez in Spain
1022
01:01:19,625 --> 01:01:22,916
is exactly produced the same way as it was
1023
01:01:22,916 --> 01:01:26,500
at the time of Columbus,
and there are registers
1024
01:01:26,500 --> 01:01:31,166
that go back from these
wineries that have a register
1025
01:01:31,166 --> 01:01:33,958
of the wine that was put on the ships
1026
01:01:33,958 --> 01:01:35,583
at the time of Columbus?
1027
01:01:35,583 --> 01:01:38,750
Amazing. Wow, that's incredible.
1028
01:01:38,750 --> 01:01:40,875
I'd like to see those registers someday.
1029
01:01:40,875 --> 01:01:43,083
Well, if you go down to Jerez,
1030
01:01:43,083 --> 01:01:47,125
there's the wineries there,
they keep a complete register.
1031
01:01:47,125 --> 01:01:50,416
In fact, Dave Horner,
our friend who did a lot
1032
01:01:50,416 --> 01:01:52,833
of underwater exploration and discovered
1033
01:01:52,833 --> 01:01:56,708
some of the greatest sea
wrecks in the world, he discovered
1034
01:01:56,708 --> 01:02:02,791
intact bottles of Byass Diaz's sherry,
1035
01:02:02,791 --> 01:02:05,375
and they still had the cork in them,
1036
01:02:05,375 --> 01:02:09,750
and the wine was still there,
and when he gifted one of these
1037
01:02:09,750 --> 01:02:12,541
to the estate of the marquis of Bonanza,
1038
01:02:12,541 --> 01:02:15,916
who owns this winery, it's interesting that
1039
01:02:15,916 --> 01:02:22,000
they studied the cork to see
how it had lasted underwater,
1040
01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:24,416
all those centuries underwater.
1041
01:02:24,416 --> 01:02:29,458
They also said, "Well,
you know what, Mr. Horner",
1042
01:02:29,458 --> 01:02:33,791
we have the register of
that exact bottle of wine
1043
01:02:33,791 --> 01:02:37,291
that you gifted to us,
the cargo it was part of,
1044
01:02:37,291 --> 01:02:39,333
and the day it was placed on that ship
1045
01:02:39,333 --> 01:02:40,750
"and sent to the New World."
1046
01:02:40,750 --> 01:02:42,375
So, basically,
the wine was still good.
1047
01:02:42,375 --> 01:02:43,791
Absolutely.
1048
01:02:43,791 --> 01:02:47,500
So, wine is... throughout history
1049
01:02:47,500 --> 01:02:49,000
you find wine.
1050
01:02:49,000 --> 01:02:51,958
It's a part of history.
1051
01:02:51,958 --> 01:02:54,458
So, here we
are at the king's table,
1052
01:02:54,458 --> 01:02:57,958
and it's been here that, since 1970,
1053
01:02:57,958 --> 01:03:01,375
we have organized medieval banquets
1054
01:03:01,375 --> 01:03:04,458
for 4 million people.
1055
01:03:04,458 --> 01:03:09,500
One of the most special
people that was queen right here
1056
01:03:09,500 --> 01:03:12,000
with Dom Duarte, the Duke of Braganza,
1057
01:03:12,000 --> 01:03:15,791
sitting right where you
are, was Amália Rodrigues,
1058
01:03:15,791 --> 01:03:17,416
the queen of fado.
1059
01:03:17,416 --> 01:03:23,291
We crowned her here
in 1995 as queen of fado.
1060
01:03:23,291 --> 01:03:28,333
And she really brought Portuguese wine
1061
01:03:28,333 --> 01:03:33,083
to America because in the 1950s,
1062
01:03:33,083 --> 01:03:36,791
when she went on tour,
she went to Broadway,
1063
01:03:36,791 --> 01:03:40,583
and she turned some of
the old fados of Portugal
1064
01:03:40,583 --> 01:03:44,500
that talk about the melancholy life,
1065
01:03:44,500 --> 01:03:50,208
about betrayal, about sickness,
about death and tragedy,
1066
01:03:50,208 --> 01:03:55,708
fado brings to life all of this emotion,
1067
01:03:55,708 --> 01:04:00,000
and she exemplified... she
was the voice of Portugal,
1068
01:04:00,000 --> 01:04:04,208
they called her, and she
translated these fados
1069
01:04:04,208 --> 01:04:05,625
into English.
1070
01:04:05,625 --> 01:04:09,250
Like, "April in Portugal"
is one of the fados.
1071
01:04:09,250 --> 01:04:11,416
But what you probably didn't know
1072
01:04:11,416 --> 01:04:15,083
was that she was made famous by a movie
1073
01:04:15,083 --> 01:04:18,125
called, "Capas Negras," black capes,
1074
01:04:18,125 --> 01:04:21,125
where she was a fado
singer that played guitar.
1075
01:04:21,125 --> 01:04:24,208
And this was her
guitar, the original guitar
1076
01:04:24,208 --> 01:04:26,333
from the 1940s.
1077
01:04:26,333 --> 01:04:31,916
Now, this guitar became the symbol
1078
01:04:31,916 --> 01:04:37,666
for the design of this bottle, Mateus Rosé.
1079
01:04:37,666 --> 01:04:41,791
And it was Mateus Rosé that sponsored
1080
01:04:41,791 --> 01:04:48,125
Amália's concerts and
her tour of South America
1081
01:04:48,125 --> 01:04:50,541
and North America and Broadway.
1082
01:04:50,541 --> 01:04:53,833
And so, it was this wine that...
1083
01:04:53,833 --> 01:04:56,791
It's a light wine and
it's... the bottle's shaped
1084
01:04:56,791 --> 01:05:01,250
like her guitar, that
really made this wine,
1085
01:05:01,250 --> 01:05:03,791
which is not really heavily
consumed in Portugal,
1086
01:05:03,791 --> 01:05:05,208
this wine.
1087
01:05:05,208 --> 01:05:08,375
It's more popular outside of Portugal,
1088
01:05:08,375 --> 01:05:10,041
and that's because of its connection
1089
01:05:10,041 --> 01:05:12,916
to fado and its connection to Amália.
1090
01:05:12,916 --> 01:05:17,208
So, I'm gonna invite you,
Edwin, to go to a little restaurant
1091
01:05:17,208 --> 01:05:20,791
that we have here in the castle
where we're going to sample
1092
01:05:20,791 --> 01:05:23,583
some of the medieval wine, we're gonna have
1093
01:05:23,583 --> 01:05:28,416
some of the entrées that
we have here in the castle,
1094
01:05:28,416 --> 01:05:31,166
and we're also going
to listen to some fado.
1095
01:05:31,166 --> 01:05:32,583
Okay, fantastic.
1096
01:05:32,583 --> 01:05:34,291
All right, let's go. All right.
1097
01:06:13,500 --> 01:06:15,750
So, let me ask
you a question, Edwin.
1098
01:06:15,750 --> 01:06:19,000
What is the national symbol of Spain?
1099
01:06:19,000 --> 01:06:20,416
The fighting bull.
1100
01:06:20,416 --> 01:06:21,833
Exactly.
1101
01:06:21,833 --> 01:06:25,583
And what does the bull
have to do with wine?
1102
01:06:25,583 --> 01:06:29,125
Everything.
Everything, exactly.
1103
01:06:29,125 --> 01:06:30,541
Spirit of the Bull.
1104
01:06:30,541 --> 01:06:32,666
But not only that.
1105
01:06:32,666 --> 01:06:39,291
Did you know that back in
1958 there was a company
1106
01:06:39,291 --> 01:06:42,458
called Azure, and they
were an advertising company,
1107
01:06:42,458 --> 01:06:45,208
and what they did was they took the...
1108
01:06:45,208 --> 01:06:49,916
One of the wineries there,
and it was Osborne wine.
1109
01:06:49,916 --> 01:06:55,500
They had produced sherry since 1772,
1110
01:06:55,500 --> 01:06:58,333
and their symbol was the bull.
1111
01:06:58,333 --> 01:07:02,166
So, there was a great advertising campaign,
1112
01:07:02,166 --> 01:07:03,625
this company.
1113
01:07:03,625 --> 01:07:08,416
All over Spain they put
these huge billboards
1114
01:07:08,416 --> 01:07:11,916
on hilltops, from the
north to the south of Spain,
1115
01:07:11,916 --> 01:07:14,708
and here you see the four different styles
1116
01:07:14,708 --> 01:07:17,875
that they had over the
years because these were
1117
01:07:17,875 --> 01:07:21,291
up until the 1990s when some
1118
01:07:21,291 --> 01:07:23,708
of the local regional governments
1119
01:07:23,708 --> 01:07:26,000
wanted these taken down because they
1120
01:07:26,000 --> 01:07:31,916
were distracting motorists,
that they were also,
1121
01:07:31,916 --> 01:07:35,083
they thought, polluting the landscape.
1122
01:07:35,083 --> 01:07:38,583
But there was a national petition
1123
01:07:38,583 --> 01:07:41,875
to keep these on the
mounts, and you see them
1124
01:07:41,875 --> 01:07:45,083
all over Spain to the
point that the bull now,
1125
01:07:45,083 --> 01:07:50,291
without the Osborne
logo, is the symbol of Spain.
1126
01:07:50,291 --> 01:07:54,541
And this is how an advertising campaign
1127
01:07:54,541 --> 01:07:56,958
became a national symbol.
1128
01:07:56,958 --> 01:07:59,625
Now, in Portugal, the same thing happened.
1129
01:07:59,625 --> 01:08:04,166
And this here is Sandeman, and Sandeman is
1130
01:08:04,166 --> 01:08:07,041
also contemporary, it's from 1790.
1131
01:08:07,041 --> 01:08:12,041
This Port wine was
produced with this symbol...
1132
01:08:12,041 --> 01:08:13,458
A torero.
1133
01:08:13,458 --> 01:08:14,875
Yes, exactly.
1134
01:08:14,875 --> 01:08:18,750
He is another one of these gentlemen
1135
01:08:18,750 --> 01:08:22,750
that wore this hat and wore a cape
1136
01:08:22,750 --> 01:08:26,875
and they were just like the
toreros and the forcados.
1137
01:08:26,875 --> 01:08:32,250
And here we have a photograph
that has my great grandfather,
1138
01:08:32,250 --> 01:08:37,416
who was a master forcado,
and his father before him.
1139
01:08:37,416 --> 01:08:43,333
And this symbol of the
men that were involved
1140
01:08:43,333 --> 01:08:48,166
with the bulls, this is the symbol that
1141
01:08:48,166 --> 01:08:52,916
was transported to wine and
to the advertising campaigns
1142
01:08:52,916 --> 01:08:55,541
of the 1930s, '40s, and '50s.
1143
01:08:55,541 --> 01:08:56,958
The same thing happened
1144
01:08:56,958 --> 01:09:00,416
with the González Byass, Tío Pepe wine.
1145
01:09:00,416 --> 01:09:02,958
So, you see here again, he's wearing that
1146
01:09:02,958 --> 01:09:04,583
and the guitar.
1147
01:09:04,583 --> 01:09:09,041
So, the guitar, the fado,
the traditional songs,
1148
01:09:09,041 --> 01:09:11,750
the fandango, all of that mixed.
1149
01:09:11,750 --> 01:09:16,375
That's all the history
and the heritage of Iberia
1150
01:09:16,375 --> 01:09:20,750
connected to the ancient cult of the bull.
1151
01:09:20,750 --> 01:09:26,208
And, you know, the oldest,
the oldest glass that was used,
1152
01:09:26,208 --> 01:09:30,500
the oldest container for
drinking wine, was this,
1153
01:09:30,500 --> 01:09:31,916
the bull's horn.
1154
01:09:31,916 --> 01:09:35,041
So, now that you have your hat on,
1155
01:09:35,041 --> 01:09:37,958
you're a member of the Confraternity,
1156
01:09:37,958 --> 01:09:43,791
and now we're going to give
you some Tío Pepe sherry.
1157
01:09:43,791 --> 01:09:49,500
This is the Tío Pepe sherry that
was named after Dave Horner,
1158
01:09:49,500 --> 01:09:53,208
who discovered the Tío Pepe bottles of wine
1159
01:09:53,208 --> 01:09:55,541
underneath the ocean in the wreck.
1160
01:09:55,541 --> 01:09:59,000
Wow, what an honor.
1161
01:10:01,583 --> 01:10:04,208
White wine.
1162
01:10:04,208 --> 01:10:05,708
Wow, it smells good.
1163
01:10:05,708 --> 01:10:08,541
How old is that?
1164
01:10:08,541 --> 01:10:13,291
This is a 2017 sherry.
1165
01:10:13,291 --> 01:10:16,583
Wow, that's amazing.
1166
01:10:20,500 --> 01:10:21,875
A few more sips of that
1167
01:10:21,875 --> 01:10:25,666
and I'll start feeling like Zorro.
1168
01:10:25,666 --> 01:10:30,458
You feel the
blood of the bull in there?
1169
01:10:30,458 --> 01:10:32,458
The spirit of el toro right there.
1170
01:10:32,458 --> 01:10:35,208
Spirit of the Bull. Wow, amazing.
1171
01:10:35,208 --> 01:10:37,542
Thank you. What an experience.
1172
01:10:41,500 --> 01:10:42,875
Order up.
1173
01:10:42,875 --> 01:10:44,291
Hello, Edwin.
1174
01:10:44,291 --> 01:10:48,458
This is the original bar where in 1970
1175
01:10:48,458 --> 01:10:51,791
John Hafford toasted with this goblet
1176
01:10:51,791 --> 01:10:54,833
to the first banquet that was held here.
1177
01:10:54,833 --> 01:10:58,916
Now, I want to tell you that
the story of this restaurant
1178
01:10:58,916 --> 01:11:02,208
is intimately connected with wine.
1179
01:11:02,208 --> 01:11:05,666
The wine that we produce and we bottle here
1180
01:11:05,666 --> 01:11:08,375
is called the Enchanted Morris,
1181
01:11:08,375 --> 01:11:11,750
Orellana from the Orellana Foundation,
1182
01:11:11,750 --> 01:11:14,791
and we also produce Elixir.
1183
01:11:14,791 --> 01:11:18,375
The medieval elixir,
the elixir of long life,
1184
01:11:18,375 --> 01:11:23,166
is a drink that the knights
had, it gave them a little perk.
1185
01:11:23,166 --> 01:11:29,625
And this wine is in fact
produced by our foundation
1186
01:11:29,625 --> 01:11:32,541
by the medieval restaurant since 1970,
1187
01:11:32,541 --> 01:11:36,125
and only three people know its secret.
1188
01:11:36,125 --> 01:11:40,500
And the secret is only
passed on to another person
1189
01:11:40,500 --> 01:11:42,500
when one of the three die.
1190
01:11:42,500 --> 01:11:50,000
So, I'm gonna have you sample
some of our medieval elixir,
1191
01:11:50,000 --> 01:11:55,000
and then I'm going to tell
you a story about the secret
1192
01:11:55,000 --> 01:12:00,458
of wine manufacturing.
1193
01:12:00,458 --> 01:12:02,041
It tastes good.
1194
01:12:02,041 --> 01:12:03,458
Well...
1195
01:12:03,458 --> 01:12:07,375
It doesn't taste bad.
1196
01:12:07,375 --> 01:12:11,250
Maybe I should reserve
that until I know what's in it?
1197
01:12:11,250 --> 01:12:14,750
Well, as I said,
there are secret ingredients
1198
01:12:14,750 --> 01:12:16,958
to this medieval elixir,
1199
01:12:16,958 --> 01:12:19,750
and there are also secret ingredients
1200
01:12:19,750 --> 01:12:21,541
to Port wine.
1201
01:12:21,541 --> 01:12:22,958
Did you know that?
1202
01:12:22,958 --> 01:12:25,083
Yes, but nobody knew what.
1203
01:12:25,083 --> 01:12:29,000
Well, let me tell you the story.
1204
01:12:29,000 --> 01:12:32,125
Back during the Napoleonic Wars, an admiral
1205
01:12:32,125 --> 01:12:35,666
by the name of Lord Nelson, Horatio Nelson,
1206
01:12:35,666 --> 01:12:38,291
was killed during the Battle of Trafalgar,
1207
01:12:38,291 --> 01:12:42,458
and in order to preserve
his body to be transported
1208
01:12:42,458 --> 01:12:45,333
back to England for a huge funeral
1209
01:12:45,333 --> 01:12:48,166
with military honors and state honors,
1210
01:12:48,166 --> 01:12:53,708
they had to preserve his
body in a keg full of wine.
1211
01:12:53,708 --> 01:12:56,541
They pickled him.
1212
01:12:56,541 --> 01:13:01,833
And afterwards the story says
when they removed Lord Nelson
1213
01:13:01,833 --> 01:13:05,541
and buried him with
honors, someone said, "Hey,
1214
01:13:05,541 --> 01:13:08,916
I wonder if the wine's still good."
1215
01:13:08,916 --> 01:13:10,416
And it was.
1216
01:13:10,416 --> 01:13:13,208
And so they drank it, but they never again
1217
01:13:13,208 --> 01:13:17,333
dared produce wine such as that.
1218
01:13:17,333 --> 01:13:20,500
However, in Ourém there is a tradition
1219
01:13:20,500 --> 01:13:25,333
of burying bottles of
wine for several months
1220
01:13:25,333 --> 01:13:28,791
and conducting a burial service called,
1221
01:13:28,791 --> 01:13:30,750
"The Burial of the Wine,"
1222
01:13:30,750 --> 01:13:35,541
and then after Easter unearthing that wine
1223
01:13:35,541 --> 01:13:38,333
and you call it Resurrection wine.
1224
01:13:38,333 --> 01:13:41,625
That's a tradition here in Ourém.
1225
01:13:41,625 --> 01:13:44,291
Now, when the Napoleonic invasions
1226
01:13:44,291 --> 01:13:47,083
came to Portugal, and they invaded Portugal
1227
01:13:47,083 --> 01:13:52,458
three times, the army got very rowdy
1228
01:13:52,458 --> 01:13:55,583
after raiding some of the estates
1229
01:13:55,583 --> 01:13:57,666
where wine was produced.
1230
01:13:57,666 --> 01:14:02,333
And so, the generals,
because of the lack of discipline,
1231
01:14:02,333 --> 01:14:04,916
were unable to hold Portugal.
1232
01:14:04,916 --> 01:14:07,125
And so, there were three successive
1233
01:14:07,125 --> 01:14:09,750
and failed invasions.
1234
01:14:09,750 --> 01:14:12,708
On the third invasion the general said,
1235
01:14:12,708 --> 01:14:18,208
"It is absolutely forbidden
for any man to drink wine
1236
01:14:18,208 --> 01:14:20,166
"during this campaign," under the threat
1237
01:14:20,166 --> 01:14:23,000
of being court martialed.
1238
01:14:23,000 --> 01:14:26,541
So, knowing this, the Portuguese,
1239
01:14:26,541 --> 01:14:31,708
who had suffered greatly
by the pillaging of food,
1240
01:14:31,708 --> 01:14:36,666
they took all their livestock,
they took all their wheat,
1241
01:14:36,666 --> 01:14:39,958
they took everything
that they really needed,
1242
01:14:39,958 --> 01:14:43,208
to the point that the people of Lisbon
1243
01:14:43,208 --> 01:14:48,166
were left with little more
than lettuce to survive.
1244
01:14:48,166 --> 01:14:51,750
The people of Porto
were left with the entrails
1245
01:14:51,750 --> 01:14:56,416
of the animals, which
they turned into tripe.
1246
01:14:56,416 --> 01:15:01,958
So, today, the people of Lisbon
are still known as alfacinhas,
1247
01:15:01,958 --> 01:15:05,458
which means lettuce eaters,
whereas the people of Porto
1248
01:15:05,458 --> 01:15:09,708
are known as tripeiros,
and that is tripe eaters.
1249
01:15:09,708 --> 01:15:13,541
Now, the secret to Port
wine comes from the fact that
1250
01:15:13,541 --> 01:15:16,583
the local inhabitants and the wineries,
1251
01:15:16,583 --> 01:15:20,958
which were British run,
knowing about the fact that
1252
01:15:20,958 --> 01:15:26,750
the Napoleonic soldiers
were forbidden to drink wine,
1253
01:15:26,750 --> 01:15:29,166
they slaughtered all the livestock
1254
01:15:29,166 --> 01:15:32,916
and they put it in the wine, the wine kegs,
1255
01:15:32,916 --> 01:15:36,875
remembering the story of Lord Nelson
1256
01:15:36,875 --> 01:15:38,791
and how they preserved him.
1257
01:15:38,791 --> 01:15:42,916
Now, they thought, we're
going to marinade this,
1258
01:15:42,916 --> 01:15:45,458
as it would be marinated in cooking,
1259
01:15:45,458 --> 01:15:47,458
and we'll put all the spices in there.
1260
01:15:47,458 --> 01:15:49,916
So, they put cloves and garlic and pepper
1261
01:15:49,916 --> 01:15:52,083
and all sorts of things
depending on what...
1262
01:15:52,083 --> 01:15:56,541
If it was lamb or if it was
pork or whatever it was, or beef,
1263
01:15:56,541 --> 01:15:59,166
that they were putting
in these kegs to preserve.
1264
01:15:59,166 --> 01:16:01,875
And when the French left,
1265
01:16:01,875 --> 01:16:03,291
because they couldn't touch the wine,
1266
01:16:03,291 --> 01:16:06,333
so the wine survived intact,
the kegs survived intact,
1267
01:16:06,333 --> 01:16:09,500
and the meat inside
survived intact for the winter,
1268
01:16:09,500 --> 01:16:13,375
ready, marinated to
cook, and somebody said,
1269
01:16:13,375 --> 01:16:16,500
"Hey, I wonder if the wine is still good."
1270
01:16:16,500 --> 01:16:19,083
And... just like Lord Nelson.
1271
01:16:19,083 --> 01:16:24,375
And sure enough it was,
so they devised a way
1272
01:16:24,375 --> 01:16:26,250
to replicate that wine.
1273
01:16:26,250 --> 01:16:30,041
And so, some of the Port wineries today,
1274
01:16:30,041 --> 01:16:33,750
their secret ingredient
is meat, depending on
1275
01:16:33,750 --> 01:16:37,583
what type of meat they
had particularly hidden
1276
01:16:37,583 --> 01:16:40,708
in their kegs at the time
of the French revolution
1277
01:16:40,708 --> 01:16:43,125
and what spices they had put into the...
1278
01:16:43,125 --> 01:16:45,333
That mixture.
1279
01:16:45,333 --> 01:16:49,375
So, I'm going to allow you now to try
1280
01:16:49,375 --> 01:16:52,791
one of the oldest Port wines we have
1281
01:16:52,791 --> 01:16:56,583
from the time of Napoleon.
1282
01:16:56,583 --> 01:16:59,625
This wine is that old?
This wine is that old.
1283
01:16:59,625 --> 01:17:01,041
Is it because they transferred to...
1284
01:17:01,041 --> 01:17:03,333
No, this is
from an original bottle.
1285
01:17:03,333 --> 01:17:05,708
Are you serious? Carlos: Yes, sir.
1286
01:17:09,250 --> 01:17:12,666
Still has a smell of wine to it.
1287
01:17:12,666 --> 01:17:14,666
Like, it still smells kind of like a Port,
1288
01:17:14,666 --> 01:17:17,625
just not as strong.
1289
01:17:17,625 --> 01:17:19,041
How old is this?
1290
01:17:19,041 --> 01:17:21,375
And the verdict is...?
1291
01:17:28,417 --> 01:17:32,375
It's not bad.
1292
01:17:32,375 --> 01:17:34,333
It's actually not bad.
1293
01:17:34,333 --> 01:17:36,083
Oh, there you go.
1294
01:17:36,083 --> 01:17:39,416
Well, toast to Lord Nelson.
1295
01:17:39,416 --> 01:17:41,250
There you are. Cheers.
1296
01:17:41,250 --> 01:17:43,416
Cheers.
1297
01:17:52,417 --> 01:17:53,791
Oh, hello, Edwin.
1298
01:17:53,791 --> 01:17:55,208
Hello.
1299
01:17:55,208 --> 01:17:58,166
Well, today we gave you a history
1300
01:17:58,166 --> 01:18:02,833
of the Castle of Ourém
and its connection to wine
1301
01:18:02,833 --> 01:18:05,666
and how the royal house of Portugal
1302
01:18:05,666 --> 01:18:09,166
has from the beginning promoted wine
1303
01:18:09,166 --> 01:18:11,708
all over the world.
1304
01:18:11,708 --> 01:18:16,750
This is the diary of the
fourth Count of Ourém.
1305
01:18:16,750 --> 01:18:19,583
The fourth Count of
Ourém, who was the firstborn
1306
01:18:19,583 --> 01:18:24,083
of the house of Braganza, went on a journey
1307
01:18:24,083 --> 01:18:29,166
to the Council of Basel
and Ferrara in the 1430s,
1308
01:18:29,166 --> 01:18:35,833
and that's when he brought
back the first red grapes,
1309
01:18:35,833 --> 01:18:39,291
and he mixed them with the white wine
1310
01:18:39,291 --> 01:18:41,125
that he already produced.
1311
01:18:41,125 --> 01:18:44,291
And because there weren't enough red grapes
1312
01:18:44,291 --> 01:18:48,708
to make red wine, the wine was produced
1313
01:18:48,708 --> 01:18:54,833
with 80% Fernão Pires,
Fernão Pires white grapes,
1314
01:18:54,833 --> 01:19:01,333
and 20% red grapes, Trincadeira.
1315
01:19:01,333 --> 01:19:06,916
So, the medieval wine of
Ourém has been produced
1316
01:19:06,916 --> 01:19:11,375
ever since 1445 by the
people here in the castle
1317
01:19:11,375 --> 01:19:16,250
using the exact same recipe
same the fourth Count of Ourém
1318
01:19:16,250 --> 01:19:18,458
wrote in his diary.
1319
01:19:18,458 --> 01:19:22,458
So, as the historian here of Ourém Castle,
1320
01:19:22,458 --> 01:19:26,500
I want to offer you here some of our books,
1321
01:19:26,500 --> 01:19:29,458
the story of the fourth Count of Ourém,
1322
01:19:29,458 --> 01:19:33,500
the story of the history
of the Castle of Ourém,
1323
01:19:33,500 --> 01:19:38,250
and the story of the counts of Ourém,
1324
01:19:38,250 --> 01:19:43,041
from the first count to the current count,
1325
01:19:43,041 --> 01:19:44,458
Dom Duarte.
1326
01:19:44,458 --> 01:19:48,833
And here we have the medal
of the 600th anniversary
1327
01:19:48,833 --> 01:19:55,083
of the birth of Dom Afonso,
the fourth count of Ourém.
1328
01:19:55,083 --> 01:19:56,708
That's incredible,
sir. Thank you very much.
1329
01:19:56,708 --> 01:19:59,125
I'm very honored to have...
To receive these gifts.
1330
01:19:59,125 --> 01:20:00,541
Thank you so much.
1331
01:20:00,541 --> 01:20:01,958
And we're very happy to have you
1332
01:20:01,958 --> 01:20:08,625
as a member of this family.
1333
01:20:08,625 --> 01:20:12,875
Now, the first
act, as member and knight
1334
01:20:12,875 --> 01:20:15,666
of our royal orders, is for you to sign
1335
01:20:15,666 --> 01:20:19,541
the ancient register
that has the continuation
1336
01:20:19,541 --> 01:20:24,041
of all of the members of the confraternity
1337
01:20:24,041 --> 01:20:25,833
of medieval wine.
1338
01:20:25,833 --> 01:20:29,458
And your name now will be alongside
1339
01:20:29,458 --> 01:20:31,458
many of the illustrious members,
1340
01:20:31,458 --> 01:20:35,250
including many of the
crowned heads of Europe.
1341
01:20:35,250 --> 01:20:36,666
Oh, I'm seeing Dom Duarte Pio
1342
01:20:36,666 --> 01:20:38,083
on the top.
1343
01:20:38,083 --> 01:20:39,500
He is number one on our list.
1344
01:20:39,500 --> 01:20:40,916
Fantastic.
1345
01:20:40,916 --> 01:20:42,416
So, we're gonna ask you to sign.
1346
01:20:56,708 --> 01:20:58,875
Congratulations. Edwin: Thank you.
1347
01:21:39,291 --> 01:21:41,291
Dom Duarte Pio: I would like you to meet
1348
01:21:41,291 --> 01:21:43,666
the firstborn
1349
01:21:43,666 --> 01:21:46,416
of the House of Braganza.
1350
01:21:46,416 --> 01:21:50,625
Edwin, you are also a member
1351
01:21:50,625 --> 01:21:54,791
of the confraternity of Saint Nuno.
1352
01:21:54,791 --> 01:21:58,416
He was the grandson
1353
01:21:58,416 --> 01:22:01,875
of the Grand Master of the Confraternity.
1354
01:22:01,875 --> 01:22:04,041
This is his coat of arms,
1355
01:22:04,041 --> 01:22:07,458
it has the Portuguese Royal coat of arms
1356
01:22:07,458 --> 01:22:12,666
and the coat of arms
of Nuno Alvares Pereira.
1357
01:22:12,666 --> 01:22:16,750
The... one of the titles that I hold,
1358
01:22:16,750 --> 01:22:19,166
it's also the Count of Ourém.
1359
01:22:19,166 --> 01:22:22,875
This is the tomb of the
fourth Count of Ourém,
1360
01:22:22,875 --> 01:22:27,541
Dom Afonso, and he was the person
1361
01:22:27,541 --> 01:22:30,458
who introduced in Portugal and I think
1362
01:22:30,458 --> 01:22:35,791
in the whole peninsula the
wines to produce red wine.
1363
01:22:35,791 --> 01:22:38,000
Before we had only white wine.
1364
01:22:38,000 --> 01:22:44,208
And then, in fact, he was also considered
1365
01:22:44,208 --> 01:22:47,375
the father of the Jewish community here.
1366
01:22:47,375 --> 01:22:50,166
And the the Jewish community controlled
1367
01:22:50,166 --> 01:22:52,916
most of the wine trade at the time,
1368
01:22:52,916 --> 01:22:54,333
which you support.
1369
01:22:54,333 --> 01:22:59,666
So, it became very important
here for the local economy.
1370
01:22:59,666 --> 01:23:03,708
And I think that this is
the most appropriate place
1371
01:23:03,708 --> 01:23:06,750
to invest you in the confraternity
1372
01:23:06,750 --> 01:23:09,166
of medieval wines.
1373
01:23:09,166 --> 01:23:12,250
I'd be most
honored, your Royal Highness.
1374
01:23:12,250 --> 01:23:13,666
Thank you.
1375
01:23:36,166 --> 01:23:37,583
Thank you.
1376
01:23:37,583 --> 01:23:39,333
Dom Duarte: I'm so happy for you, Edwin.
1377
01:23:39,333 --> 01:23:41,500
Thank you.
1378
01:23:42,792 --> 01:23:46,583
This epic
journey to learn, discover,
1379
01:23:46,583 --> 01:23:50,125
and procure has come to an end.
1380
01:23:50,125 --> 01:23:55,541
As I look back, I ask myself,
"Has this all been a dream?
1381
01:23:55,541 --> 01:23:57,875
If so, please don't wake me."
1382
01:23:57,875 --> 01:24:00,291
This has been a red,
white, and regal experience
1383
01:24:00,291 --> 01:24:04,125
beyond all imagination and expectation.
1384
01:24:04,125 --> 01:24:07,666
This story will forever
serve as a constant reminder
1385
01:24:07,666 --> 01:24:09,625
that wine does indeed have the power
1386
01:24:09,625 --> 01:24:13,083
to transcend time and space.
1387
01:24:13,083 --> 01:24:15,500
All that I've gained
and all that I've learned
1388
01:24:15,500 --> 01:24:18,708
barely scratches the
surface of the deep history
1389
01:24:18,708 --> 01:24:22,041
and culture of wine.
1390
01:24:22,041 --> 01:24:24,416
So, I must rephrase.
1391
01:24:24,416 --> 01:24:27,291
This is not the end of our journey.
1392
01:24:27,291 --> 01:24:29,916
It is just the beginning.
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