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Stairway to Heaven
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But the spirit seems up to the challenge. Something happens when you follow a mule down your ancestors’ tilted, rocky paths. Palacios’s l’Ermita vineyard looks like a cliff-side graveyard, with each vine spread out, crucifixion-style on its own wooden trellis. The grapes, he says, won’t be ready for at least ten or fifteen years. Perhaps not even for this generation. And you get the sense that the steps of this vineyard, aimed at immortality, are Palacios’ own Scala Dei, his personal stairway to heaven.

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