Wine press, Vinseum, Vilafranca del Penedes, Catalonia

Huge wine press, a beam press (long horizontal beam) or hundredweight press (stone weight), built 1832, from Cal Marques de Cunit, Baix Penedes, in the Vinseum or Catalan Wine Cultures Museum, housing a collection of tools and technology related to the history of viticulture and winemaking, in a medieval palace of the kings of Aragon, in the town of Vilafranca del Penedes, Catalonia, Spain. This type of wine press was first used by the Romans in the 2nd century BC. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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1832 Beam Cataluna Grape Hundredweight Penedes Vilafranca Viticulture Winemaking

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