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Último día de recolección para el lote 59901 de Virens EVOO
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Amanece en el horizonte, y la sierra de Grazalema se enciende de a poco. No muy lejos de su falda, en un antiguo monasterio de retiro, José y su cuadrilla despliegan las mallas bajo olivos con patillas anchas, raíces como dedos viejos hurgando el albero. Hoy se recoge lo último: las aceitunas que cierran la campaña en este jardín centenario plantado por religiosos, a 320 metros sobre el nivel del mar, con la ladera mirando al suroeste y el suelo de arena clara —albero— que cede un crujido leve a cada paso.
El trabajo es manual: vareo rítmico, peines mecánicos (pero manipulados a mano), la arpillera al hombro. Un tractor espera a la sombra para llevar la pala cada tanto, cuando se llena de aceitunas.

Javier, que lleva varias décadas trabajando el campo, cuenta que ahora que se terminó la campaña en esta finca puntualmente, solo queda podar los olivos para la temporada del año que viene.

Al caer la tarde, la cuba se llena y se lleva a la almazara. Esta partida del lote 59901, de variedad Lechín —casta del suroeste andaluz, abundante en la Sierra de Cádiz— se mantuvo en frío antes de moler; la pasta trabajó a 22 °C y el primer chorro, ya limpio, se decantó, filtró y guardó, para que nada del aroma se nos escape antes de tiempo.

El resultado cabe en solo mil botellas y lleva nombre: VIRENS. Cada lote cuenta su historia, su recolección, prensa y su perfil.
Así como el fruto que José y su grupo de diez trabajadores, cada botella de VIRENS trae en su color el verde del campo y la calma de lo que siempre se hizo así.




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Sebastián Astorga has worked as a journalist, photojournalist and video reporter for more than three years. He has been a contributor for EFE, El Salto (Spain) and Montevideo Portal (Uruguay).
Guillermo travels to the countryside to take care of Héctor, his sick father for three nights. Upon his arrival, Guillermo finds that Héctor’s condition changes at night, in which, in turn, something coming from the sky seems to approach.
During the 2021 edition of the Fenacies film festival awards, the short film project Escalando Uruguay (Climbing Uruguay) that started as a student project to document the growth of the climbing community in Uruguay thanks to the migration won as the best short film in the documentary category of the Montevideo’s festival.
What is it like to climb in Uruguay? In a country without big mountains, a group of climbers manage to make the climbing culture grow anyway. One of the founders of Montevideo Boulder Club, Pablo Velozo, and Freddy Espinoza are two Venezuelan climbers based in the Rio de la Plata country who are trying their hand at the project “El gran capuchino” (8a).
Directed and produced by
SEBASTIAN ASTORGA
Cameras
SEBASTIÁN ASTORGA
ALESSIO BERETTA
Cast
PABLO VELOZO
FREDDY ESPINOZA
OSVALDO KORN
Support from
Es Pa’rriba Magazine
Radiomundo
Montevideo Boulder Club
Music
Artist: Whitesand (Martynas Lau)
Artist: Hooksounds
Title: Apocalypse
© 2019 Sebastián Astorga – https://www.sebastorga.com – @sebastorg