TALES FROM THE VALLEY
The land and the people of the Pucará Valley whisper their stories and ancient wisdom. This is our tribute to their perseverance in making the utopian possible and an archive to treasure their legacy.
- Episode 1 -
Why am I here?
Through Stories from the Valley, we share the ancestral knowledge and visions that still alive in the Pucará Valley.
This first episode is very personal, inspired by the question the goatherd Reimundo asked me a few years ago: “Don Moreno, do you know why you’re here?”
As a pioneer of the project, I share some of the lessons I’ve learned along the way: different ways of understanding life, the land, and time.
This encounter with the valley’s living culture has transformed me, and I believe it can touch us all. Perhaps that same question challenges us all.
- Episode 2 -
Heroic Viticulture in the Pucará Valley
Santiago Achaval, Winemaker
At La Finca de los Viñedos Imposibles we believe that the landscape shapes the body of a place, and culture its spirit. Through Voices of the Valley, we share the voices and knowledge that still live on in the Pucará Valley.
In this episode, Santiago Achaval describes heroic viticulture, and how all his experience cultivating vines around the world needed the wisdom of the people of the Pucará Valley in order to adapt to the extreme conditions of the place. From this dialogue is born a wine that expresses not only the terroir, but also the soul of the valley.
- Episode 3 -
When the grape falls silent and the terroir speaks
Roberto Cipresso, Winemaker
At La Finca de los Viñedos Imposibles, we believe the landscape shapes a place’s body, and culture its spirit. Through Relatos del Valle, we share the ancestral perspectives and knowledge that still resonate in the Pucará Valley.
In this episode, Roberto Cipresso explains how the Valley’s culture and people infuse the wine with an intangible, singular element: each bottle is a living expression of the strength, history, and wisdom of this one-of-a-kind terroir.
- Episode 4 -
The Healing Earth
Reymundo - Shepherd
At Finca de los Viñedos Imposibles, we believe that the landscape shapes the body of a place, and culture, its spirit. Through Voices of the Valley, we share the ancestral knowledge that still lives in the Valley of Pucará.
In this episode, shepherd Reymundo guides us through his ancestral understanding of the traditional use of the valley’s herbs. What relevance could it have for a citizen of Toronto that rosemary can cure a toothache? A great deal. Because every culture is a branch of the great tree of humanity — a living archive of wisdom, and a source of inspiration for the future.
- Episode 5 -
The voice that honors Pachamama
Juana - Shepherdess of the Vally
At Finca de los Viñedos Imposibles, we believe that landscape gives a place its body, and culture its spirit. Through Voces del Valle, we share the voices and knowledge that still pulse in the Valle de Pucará.
In this episode, the shepherdess Juana shares her ancestral knowledge of goat herding and her deep bond with Pachamama.
What relevance could it have, for someone living in Manhattan, that every August 1 the people of the Valle de Pucará pay homage to Mother Earth? Perhaps the same relevance that, for someone from the Valley, the opening of a Monet exhibition at MoMA would have.
But the loss of any of those cultural expressions—an ancestral ceremony or a universal work of art—impoverishes all humanity. Because every culture is a unique manifestation of the human spirit. All are threads of the same fragile, precious fabric that sustains us and defines us as a species.
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