{"id":1705,"date":"2016-05-13T09:55:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T09:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/food-wine-tour-in-northern-spain-day-1\/"},"modified":"2018-01-04T09:49:39","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T09:49:39","slug":"food-wine-tour-in-northern-spain-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/?p=1705","title":{"rendered":"Food &#038; Wine Tour in Northern Spain Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yesterday, I started a 12 day wine tour in the north of Spain with two previous clients of mine and two \u00a0of 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 incredible size is a statement of Spain&#8217;s power in the 16th century.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1908 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-46.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-46.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-46-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/div>\n<p>After a light lunch which my clients accompanied with a bottle of Condado de Haza we headed to Segovia. This is one of my favourite Castillian towns with its Roman \u00a0aqueduct, gothic cathedral, fairy-tale like alcazar and many other fine buildings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1909 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-47.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-47.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-47-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Segovia is famous for suckling pig and people make a pilgrimmage to eat it at a number of local restaurants. We went for dinner at probably the most famous restaurant of all, C\u00e1ndido, situated right next to the aqueduct. The suckling pig was very good and we accompanied it with two very good wines from the Ribera del Duero, Pago de los Capellanes Reserva 2011 and Vi\u00f1a Pedrosa Reserva, 2011. The first was a lighter more elegant wine whilst the second was deeper, more mineral and earthy.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1910 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-48.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-48.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/aqot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/image-48-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aqot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Food and Wine Tours Spain<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I started a 12 day wine tour in the north of Spain with two previous clients of mine and two \u00a0of 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 incredible size is a statement of Spain&#8217;s power [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1705","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\/1705","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=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aqot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}