Dining in Haro You have some excellent dining options in Haro should you be in the area. Chef Miguel Caño’s Nublo Restaurant, with one Michelin star and two Repsol suns, is considered to be the top destination for find dining in Haro, but if you want something without the Michelin star, one option is Los…
Category: Rioja
Wine Touring in the Rioja Alta – Cenicero
Cenicero If you continue south on the A-3210/LR-211 from Elciego, past Viña Salceda (Alavesa), you will arrive at the historic village of Cenicero sitting along the southern bank of the bend in the Ebro river, where you will find two of the oldest bodegas in La Rioja. The village, first settled sometime during the third…
Wine Touring in the Rioja Oriental – Alfaro
Wine Touring in Alfaro The capital of the Rioja Oriental (Eastern Rioja), Alfaro, the city of the white storks, sits south of the Sotos del Ebro nature reserve. The rooftop of its 17th-century Baroque masterpiece, the Colegiata de San Miguel Arcángel in the Plaza de España, is covered with some 400 stork nests, the largest…
Wine Touring in the Rioja Alavesa – Villabuena de Álava-Eskuernaga
This small village situated along both the banks of the Herrera River has currently a collection of some 34 bodegas, more than one for every six of its residents. The village of Eskuernaga, as it is called in Basque, has a long tradition of wine making and sits in the very heart of the Rioja…
Wine Touring in the Rioja Alta – Briones
Briones, a medieval village The majestic Renaissance Church of La Asunción Wine touring in the heart of the Rioja Alta After visits to the Barrio de la Estación in Haro and the small village of Ollauri, our next suggested stop on the wine trail comes a few minutes down the N-124 / N-232 highway past…
Wine Touring in the Najerilla Valley
The Najerilla river flows from the mountains of the Sierra de la Demanda to the Ebro River, making this a special corner of La Rioja, with a unique style of wine, the lower part of the valley yielding the region’s most balanced wines. The valley, considered by many to be central to La Rioja vineyards,…
Wine Touring in Rioja’s Valle del Tirón
Valle del Tirón, La Rioja Alta West of Haro, 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…
Haro and the Barrio de la Estación
Wine Touring in the Rioja Alta Haro, capital of the Rioja Alta We usually start our wine touring in the western end of the Rioja. Haro, the wine capital of the Rioja Alta, is an agricultural town of just under 12,000 inhabitants and has the largest concentration of centuries-old wineries in the world; CVNE, Gómez…
Escaping to Navarra
Where To Stay in the Kingdom of Navarra Hotel Churrut There are a number of small, charming boutique hotels in Navarra where one can get away for a few days a peace and quiet, yet still be close to the action. One of our first discoveries a few years ago was this delightful 18-century family home…
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