Archive for September, 2007

Letter from Haro 6: Under the Calvary Cross

Friday, September 21st, 2007

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Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Moving southwest from San Vicente de la Sonsierra, just across the Ebro River, you will soon come across another mid-valley hilltop village, Briones. (On a clear day, from the balcón in the Sierra de Cantabria above Sanmaniego, you can make out all four hilltop villages of winemaking Rioja in one east to west sweep: Laguardia, San Vicente de la Sonsierra, Briones, and Haro.)

Yesterday, I asked Ivan Alberdi, enologist at Bodgeas Benjamin Romeo, about the two towns when were standing in a vineyard equidistant from both. Thinking I was onto something, I said, “Would you consider Briones and San Vicente sister villages?”

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Letter from Haro 5: The Bull before the Storm

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

Letter from Haro 4: Avenida de Vizcaya

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

Letter from Haro 3: Fiesta de Verduras and a bottle of 1954 Monte Real Semi-dulce

Monday, September 17th, 2007

Letter from Haro 2: CIA Rioja 2007, some background

Friday, September 14th, 2007

Letter from Haro

Saturday, September 8th, 2007