Last week was Semana Santa, Easter week and in Spain, they always have long holiday. This year the official holidays fall on Thursday and Friday. Therefore, many Companies and Schools are closed for the whole week and some even on the following Monday.
With a group of Singaporeans friends, we planned to go for a rest and relax road trip to La Rioja, the biggest wine region in Spain. We set off in two cars on Thursday and return on Sunday.
We met for breakfast and set off at about 10.30am. Our first stop is at Bodegas Portia in Ribera del Duero, also a wine region to have our first break and first taste of wine.
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| Bodegas Portia |
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| Bodegas Portia |
Continued our journey to Lerma for the most delicious roast baby lamb. It's my third time in Lerma and have tried in three different restaurants. This time we had it at Casa Antón. The price includes salad, free follow of house wine, water and the main dish, Lechazo. I highly recommend you to this restaurant.
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Lunch at Casa Antón
Lechazo (roast baby lamb) |
After lunch, we drove to our chalet in a small village at Villalobar, La Rioja for three nights.
On Friday, we started off our day with visit to Bodegas Marques the Riscal, Elciego. The tour was enriching and ended with tasting of red and white wine. We had our lunch at the hotel Bistro 1860 restaurant with amazing view too. The hotel is designed by Frank Gehry and to stay in a deluxe room starts from 290 euro per nite.
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| Hotel Marqués de Riscal, Elciego |
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| Bodegas Marqués de Riscal |
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| Bodegas Marqués de Riscal |
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| Bodegas Marqués de Riscal |
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| Bodegas Marqués de Riscal |
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| Hotel Marqués de Riscal, Elciego |
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Lunch at Bistro 1860 Restaurant
Hotel Marqués de Riscal, Elciego |
After lunch we went to Bodegas Ysios but it was closed. On the way out, we had a up and closed encounter with the lambs and goats.
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Bodegas Ysios
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Next, is a impromptu stop over at Bodegas Eguen Ugarte. We bought the wine tasting menu and had lots of fun taking funny photos too. We were trying to do a running man style but I am not talented and not flexible enough. The two men below can do it very well!
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Eguren Ugarte Bodegas |
For dinner, we decided to drive to a nearby town, Haro. We just walked around and had some pinchos and went back to our chalet.
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| Haro |
Saturday, we visited Bodegas Vivanco. It has a very spectacular museum and wine tour as well. We just did the museum visit and later we bought the wine tasting menu.
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| Bodegas Vivanco |
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| Bodegas Vivanco |
We spent about four hours at Vivanco and then left to Logroño, a beautiful city located in the north of La Rioja region on the Ebro River.
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| Logroño |
Following are some group pictures we took along the way. Can you spot the Singapore's flag?
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| Group photos |
Going on a wine route trip means other than tasting, drinking and eating, we also bought some home. In fact, my husband was so in love in the 1.5L wine that we decided to collect them and hopefully bring back to Singapore one day to display in our own nest. Throughout the trip, we bought four 1.5L of red wine for our collections.
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| Our collections of 1.5L |
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