6 Alternative Ways to Enjoy a Rioja Wine (Note: not for those who fear heights!) |
| Published: April 3, 2008, 4:25 am |
| Tags: rioja, spain, tourism, dinastia vivanco museum, dinosaur tracks, drink, enoturismo, equestrianism, food, hiking, hot air balloon rides, la rioja, marques de riscal, recreation, spa, spanish wine, wine, wine tasting, wine tourism |
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I’ll be the first to admit that I can only take so much wine while on a business trip. After awhile, my eyes glaze over and I feel an intense craving to either down a gin and tonic, or at the very least, stay as far as humanly possible from a fermentation tank. And god forbid if I actually start dreaming about wine, like having the winemaker lecturing me on whether one should place a single row of grapes in a bin during harvest or two. Then, there is that one nightmare where I’m chained to a long wooden table adhering labels to each bottle as a raspy female voice sounds over a speaker, “You now have 981,872 labels remaining…you now have 981,871 labels remaining… Yeah, that’s when you know that you’ve visited one too many wineries in a day! However, over the years, I have realized that it is not so much wine that I tire of, but it’s the way in which I am enjoying it. Sitting in a tasting room with a notebook in hand and my glasses [ Full article ] |
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