A ventilation well to the old wine caves

Gran Reserva. These were bottled over 60 years ago

A concrete tank for fermentation. The wineries are going back to traditional concrete tanks.

To get the wine out of the caves, they fill goat skins. And carry it out

Concrete egg tanks are a more modern version of the old ones.

We got wine glasses with a carrier sleeve.

We got to sample some wine still being aged.

Tapas in Laguardia, a beautiful midieval hill town.

Laguardia being readied for the bull run later this month

This home had a winery. The window was for the grape deliveries, the grill below was to ventilate

They put bars across the door so the bulls don't break in. It has happened

Mushroom Tapas back in Logroño the specialty there.

Wine tour and Laguardia

June 12, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C

Nicole and I celebrated the end of our Camino with a wine tour today and dinner with Camino friends who caught up to us in Logroño. The first stop was a vineyard that made wine in both the modern way, and the old way (foot stomping). We leaned a bit and tasted a lot of great wine. One of the lessons was the old method wine is what you get in LA Rioja when you order Vino Tinto (red wine) unless you're more specific, and it's the best wine to pair with tapas. Rebeca, the tour operator, arranged for a tapas lunch in Laguardia. Rebeca then gave us a little tour of Laguardia and we saw that the town was preparing for their bull run. She also recommended that we try mushroom pintxos in Logroño. After lunch, we had a special wine tasting with Rebeca and her husband.

We met Joanne and Paul for dinner after we got back to Logroño. We stopped in a few more places along Calle Laurel and even tried the mushrooms that Rebeca recommended.Read more