The Archaeology of Wine: The Wine and Brandy Haciendas of Moquegua, Peru.

Spanish colonial settlement of the Moquegua valley of far southern Peru was oriented economically toward production of wine and brandy. A total of 130 wine hacienda sites (bodegas) can be identified there, primarily on the basis of adobe structures on hills bordering the valley. These sites had both residential and ‘industrial’ functions, and their arrangements can be described by four site plans or layouts. This article describes the ‘industrial’ sectors of the sites, particularly the facilitiesfor wine and brandy making (crushing tanks, rooms holding earthenware fermentation jars, distillery apparatus) and the functionally ‘specialized’ site plan. Facilities were arranged spatially to incorporate gravity flow in moving liquids. The technology and organization of wine-making at the Moquegua sites evince similarities not only with Spanish models, but also with much earlier Roman wine-making. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]