Bodegas Gómez Cruzado opens its new wine cellar in the Barrio de La Estación. James Suckling – Gómez Cruzado has built a new winery and technical director Juan Bautista says the aim is to better understand the parcels they find most compelling. They have focused on concrete alongside relatively large French oak vessels of 8,000…
Category: Rioja
Wine Touring, Valle del Tirón, Rioja Alta
West of Haro, the “wine capital” of La Rioja, in the Valley of Tirón, you will find several small villages, some with castles and all with a long history of wine making; Anguciana, Ternero (Castile-León) Sajazarra, Fonzaleche, Cuzcurrita de Río Tirón and Tirgo. The Río Tirón joins the Río Oja near Cihuri, before flowing into…
The Montecillo Dolmen, Ibaola Harriak and Bodegas Badiola
Surprisingly, or maybe not, this 3900 year old dolmen, a bronze age tomb, wasn’t discovered until 2009 by Roberto Ibáñez of Villabuena de Álava. It sits just north of the village on the high ground in the middle of the vineyards, which today belong to Bodegas Badiola. Interestingly enough, there is another “dolmen” located nearby,…
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