Where Wine Comes From

Chatting with Don Horacio who tends these vines, he commented that even other locals think that wine comes from a bottle - much like city kids who've never seen a cow, think milk comes from a carton. He'd mentioned to an acquaintance that he was coming up to spray the vines and their reaction had been, "Whatever for?"

This is how the vines look at this time of year, with the tiny bunches of grapes already formed and with plenty of young, succulent leaves. It's interesting that the people from the Canary Islands are masters at utilizing every last thing, but hadn't thought of eating their vine leaves. See where this picture was taken. [?]