Raisin Festival

Raisin Festival
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Start date
18/09/2022
End date
18/09/2022
Place
Lugares públicos de El Borge

El Borge, a village that produces raisins par excellence, celebrates a festival in honour of this local product called the day of the raisin, it is a festival centred on promoting the raisins that are of vital importance in the local economy. On the festival day, one of the demonstrations is the preparing and then transporting the raisins in baskets that are carried on the heads of the grape harvesters.

This village, with just over a thousand inhabitants, organises this festival dadicated to the raisin with Málaga appellation d'origene contrôlée. On the day of the festival over 10.000 people visit the village, they are given small packets of raisins, as well as gazpacho, sweet muscatel wine and other typical products from the district of the Axarquía, all this to the sounds and colour of the verdiales folk groups and the rociero type flamenco choirs.

During the day there are different demonstartions of the process used to produce the raisins, from picking the grapes, transporting them, laying them out and drying them in the sun in the drying beds, trimming them ready for packing and also treading the grapes to make the sweet wine (the must produced is offered to the visitors to try).

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