{"id":1689,"date":"2016-08-26T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T17:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wine-tour-to-arcos-de-la-frontera\/"},"modified":"2018-01-03T15:44:30","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T15:44:30","slug":"wine-tour-to-arcos-de-la-frontera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/?p=1689","title":{"rendered":"Wine tour to Arcos de la Frontera"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier this week I ran a wine tour to the Arcos de la Frontera area. Arcos is one of the famed white villages and is very spectacular with the old part of the town atop a sandstone ridge with towering vertical cliffs. I was with a group of wonderful Australians who were real fun to be with. at the winery quite a lot of the grapes had already been picked. In the\u00a0 photo below you can see a large part of the vineyard with the leaves already changing colour and drying out.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1853 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160822_112237-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160822_112237-1.jpg 320w, https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/20160822_112237-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p>The second photo is of the triconical oak fermentation vats which are used for the higher-end wines.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1854 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/fermentation-vats-on-wine-tour.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/fermentation-vats-on-wine-tour.jpg 320w, https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/fermentation-vats-on-wine-tour-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p>The final photo is in the tasting room where we tasted 4 wines, a white made from Chardonnay, a ros\u00e9 and two reds. For the reds the winery grows 4 grapes; Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Tintilla de Rota which is an aromatic local grape. Syrah vines make up the major part of the vineyard.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">My clients enjoyed all the wines and favourably compared the reds with Syrah or Shiraz based wines from their homeland.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wine tours in Spain<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week I ran a wine tour to the Arcos de la Frontera area. Arcos is one of the famed white villages and is very spectacular with the old part of the town atop a sandstone ridge with towering vertical cliffs. I was with a group of wonderful Australians who were real fun to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aqot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}