Local farmers could sidestep the problem of Lanzarote’s extremely low rainfall, which was obviously a major hurdle for any kind of crop or wine cultivation in this area. The method of cultivation for wine producers is that everything has to be done by hand. The vine stocks are individually planted in craters dug to around two meters in depth. They are then covered in "Picon" (black cinders) and protected further by the semi circular "Zocos" - Zocos are the halfmoon round stone walls made from the natural lava stones from the fields to protect the crater against the wind and to keep the cinder on the fields.

Each plant must be protected from the ever present and strong blowing wind by this half-moon wall of volcanic stones. The vines grow well in the middle of the small craters in the cinder covered earth, while the "picon" itself allows to store the night time humidity and transfer it to the roots in deeper areas to water the vine and encourage growth.

The curving walls - the "zocos" - are typical for this part of Lanzarote and are a unique and photogenic experience. Some newer wine fields now started to have long walls of natural stones designed with little roads between the rows of grapevines to harvest the wine more easier than only by walking and pick by hand.

Normally and since hundreds of years at harvest time all of the grapes must be hand picked - it is impossible to drive through the landscape with its thousands of craters and walls.