One more year, Haro, 'Capital of Rioja' already in its own right, paired carnival with its wines last weekend. It was in the Haro Wine Carnival. This has been held since 2010 and this time it transformed the cloister of the Hotel Los Agustinos in a great vintage circus.
Juggling, funanbulism, dance and music were not lacking in it. In the great masked ball that was enjoyed between the columns of the cloister, the atmosphere was fabulous. Hundreds of attendees were able to taste the wines of 14 wineries in Haro, among them the following.
Wineries present at the Wine Carnival
CVNE, Gomez Cruzado, La Rioja Alta, Bodegas Bilbainas, Muga and Roda, centenarians of the station neighborhood. As well as Carlos Serres, Florentino de Lecanda, Ibaiondo, Martínez Lacuesta, Marqués de Carrión, Ramón Bilbao, Virgen de la Vega Cooperative Society and Rioja Santiago.
Attendees drank red wines such as Muga Reserva Especial 2012, Martínez Lacuesta Gran Reserva 2007, Gómez Cruzado Crianza 2014, Viña Ardanza Reserva 2008 or Viña Real Reserva 2013.
Also in this land where reds predominate, there were whites like Gómez Cruzado's 2016. It is the smallest winery in the station neighborhood. This maintains a quarter of its production of white wine, or the 2017 white of Virgen de la Vega.
In the land of reds, whites and cava were taken
And since it is carnival time, the cava also ran, because also in Rioja there are three wineries that make it. Are the Bodegas Bilbainas, who carried their Vineyard Pomal Blanc de Noirs 2014. This winery commercialized champagne since 1859, and now he has been digging since 1975.
In fact, Bodegas Bilbainas It is the second signature registered in the Cava Denomination of Origin after Quail. Muga, another winery that makes it, offered its rosé cava Count of Haro, 100% Garnacha, to toast the carnival.
In previous editions of this Haro Wine Carnival there was also vermouthThat of Martinez Lacuesta. It has been made since 1937, one of the few wineries in Rioja who makes this drink.
