She inherited a Roman winery with no light switch, and a tradition that survives only if someone keeps doing it. Every September the grapes are trodden by foot, by candlelight, the way the Romans did it here. · ~12 min
By Candlelight
Episode
Episode 07
Food Hero
Carolina Pateman Ivars
Pillar
The Makers
Location
Sierra Bernia, Costa Blanca
Coming soon
Carolina Pateman Ivars keeps a Roman villa winery on Sierra Bernia that her father found in ruins and refused to let go. There is no electricity. The kitchen cooks over fire and wood. Each September the grapes are trodden by foot, by candlelight, exactly as they were trodden on this ground two thousand years ago. It would be easy to call this a re-enactment. It is not: it is simply the winery still working, having never stopped, on the terms it was built for. Nothing here has been reconstructed for visitors. It has been kept.
