Incredible efforts of Spanish fruit pickers as they collect grapes from precarious lake-side terraces at harvest time
29.10.2013 14:01
- Two wine estates in Spain's Riberia Sacra region are carved into the steep hills
- The region has been producing wine for 2,000 years since the Romans first planted vines
- It was taken over by monks and the name Riberia Sacra means 'holy river bank'
- It was nearly abandoned because of a plague of aphids which devastated crops
- Today intrepid producers are harvesting thousands of tonnes of grapes from the slopes