by Roger Davies | May 19, 2016 | AQOT
On Tuesday (17 May) we visited two wineries that are part of the Eguren group, Viñedos de Páganos y San Vicente. There are two vneyards adjacent to the first winery that produce the wines El Puntido and La Nieta. You can see them in the two photos below. Underneath...
by Roger Davies | May 17, 2016 | AQOT
Yesterday, we left Burgos and headed for the Rioja wine region. We started with a visit to Bodegas Miguel Merino. This is a small winery situated in the town of Briones. The winery sources grapes from the 11.5 Ha that belong to them. This means that production is...
by Roger Davies | May 17, 2016 | AQOT
Yesterday, we spent the whole day in Burgos. My clients went on a private guided tour with a local guide, Carlota, who they said was marvellous. They spent most of their time in the wonderful gothic cathedral. For lunch we went on a tapas crawl of some great bars not...
by Roger Davies | May 15, 2016 | AQOT
Yesterday we left Segovia and headed first to the Ribera del Duero wine region where we stopped at two wineries, both of which were founded in the early 1990s. Our first stop was at Bodegas Vizcarra where the owner and winemaker Juan Carlos Vizcarra showed us around....
by Roger Davies | May 14, 2016 | AQOT
Yesterday, it rained for most of the time. In the morning, I organised a guided tour of Segovia for my clients with a great local guide, Elena. We then headed off to the medieval village of Pedraza which looks as if it hasn’t changed much over the last 400 years...
by Roger Davies | May 13, 2016 | AQOT
Yesterday, I started a 12 day wine tour in the north of Spain with two previous clients of mine and two of their friends. Leaving Madrid we stopped off at El Escorial, the enourmous palace, monastery, mausoleum that was constructed by the Spanish king Felipe II. Its...
