Tag: Rioja
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San Sebastian Revisited (Six Months Later)
I have a weird blogging habit – I hate to put up my last post from a particular vacation. I guess subconsciously I feel like it’s the last time I’ll savor a place. That writing that last post means that vacation is truly ended and in the books and only to be relived on the…
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Rioja Part Two: Do Great Architects Make Good Wine?
“This Gehry guy really seems to know what he’s doing,” I said out loud, albeit, a bit breathlessly. I’m pretty sure the bellhop heard me on that one. The swirling riot of metallic ribbons of fuschia, gold and silver that make up the roof of the Hotel Marques de Riscal will do that to a…
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Rioja: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Winemaking (and a teeny bit of actual drinking)
Our three-day visit to the Rioja wine route in Spain has made us experts at making wine. Prior to this trip, my personal sommelier XFE and I felt fully confident that after watching two seasons of Moonshiners, several tours of distilleries (including Jameson in Ireland) and quite a few breweries (mostly in Colorado), and probably…
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Spain Does Not Suck
Hola chicas (y, un solo chico, possiblimente)! Como estamos? I’m great! And back from a fabulous vacation in Northern Spain. Petunia really wanted to go. She’s Calico, which is kinda close to Catalonian, so she thinks she should go to Spain. In the photo above, she is sitting on my travel binder. Oh, do you…