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Scenes of a Harvest in Rioja, October 2009

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

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PHOTOS (from top to bottom): A destemmer rotates a batch of Tempranillo grape clusters at Bodegas Palacio in Laguardia; a cosechero, or grape grower, at Bodegas Palacio offers a visitor a cluster of Tempranillo grapes; Tom Athans, wine buyer at NYC’s soon-to-be open East Side Social Club; the sorting table at Bodegas Hermanos Peciña in San Vicente de la Sonsierra; unloading comportas, baskets made of poplar wood, at R. López de Heredia Viña Tondonia in Haro; a worker approaching López de Heredia’s rotating, wrought iron comporta sleeve; another worker calls out a number corresponding to the grapes’ origin as he empties the poplar basket into the winery’s destemmer.

I Got You, Man: Bonding over Crushed Grapes

Sunday, September 27th, 2009

On Rioja Joven, Part 2: What is Rioja Joven?

Friday, September 18th, 2009

‘76 to ‘82: Aged Rioja and American Popular Music: More from Evolution of Rioja Gran Reserva

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Oak, Phylloxera, and the Origins of the Gran Reserva: Doug Frost on the History of Rioja, Part Two

Saturday, December 20th, 2008

Of Field Blends & Sparkling ‘White Zin Auslese’: Doug Frost on the History of Rioja, Part One

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Notes from the North of Spain, Day Three: Russian oak, a Briones surprise, and a Hemingway discovery

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008