Rioja's Historic Wine Triangle

Explore Spain's most revered wine region. From the "Barrio de la Estación" where legends were born, to medieval walled towns and avant-garde wineries.

4 experiences 🇪🇸 Spain moderate 2 days

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    Marqués de Riscal City of Wine

    They offered Frank Gehry wine from 1929 - the year he was born. That is how they convinced the architect of the Bilbao Guggenheim to design a bodega. He called it "a marvellous creature, with hair flying everywhere." Watch the titanium ribbons transform from cold metal to liquid fire at sunset.

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    Haro Wine Battle (Batalla del Vino)

    The wildest wine festival! 50,000L of wine thrown from 7:30am on June 29. Pilgrimage to Hermitage, mass, then epic battle. Book months ahead!

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    Traditional Rioja Bodega Crawl in Haro

    Walk the Barrio de la Estación, home to legendary bodegas. Visit López de Heredia, CVNE, and Muga within steps of each other.

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    López de Heredia Viña Tondonia

    "The lights disturb the spiders." The cobwebs are not decoration - they are protected employees eating moths that would destroy corks on century-old bottles. Descend into horror-movie darkness where time stopped in 1877. María José carries "her whole family within her... like a Russian nesting doll."

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