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"Rioja Roundup"
Not since Raiders of the Lost Ark has a warehouse stretched as endlessly as the Marques de Riscal’s aging room, where 4 million bottles recede into the distance like a Renaissance diagram of one-point perspective. But this is no CGI effect. What’s more, it’s only half the winery’s 7.6-million bottle cache resting [...]
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Why do the Spanish love painted sculpture so? And why does this saint have fava beans hanging around his neck?
These are unanswered mysteries here in northern Spain. We ran across Saint Fava Bean in Briones, a sleepy village on the Ebro River in Rioja. The plaza is encircled by ornate palaces [...]
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