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UPCOMING FREE ACTIVITIES
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October 22, 2024

28th October: Visit to a wine cellar and Wine Museum in La Rioja

On the 28th October, we have an interesting trip to La Rioja; Spain’s main wine region which is situated very near to our central office in Bilbao. It is grape harvest time and so the best time to learn about the process of wine production and to taste the first wines of 2007.

Students on the Spanish courses and any of the participants on the voluntary programmes, business internships and Spanish Teacher Training courses (ELE) are invited to participate in this excursion which leaves Bilbao on Sunday morning.

The first visit is a guided tour of the Ramirez de la Piscina bodega (wine cellar). This new wine cellar, which is situated in San Vicente de la Sonsierra, is equipped with the most modern systems whilst still following the long standing family traditions. It has 17 hectares of its own vineyards in Ábalos and San Vincente de la Sonsierra and it carefully selects its grapes from it´s own vineyards and from other local vine growers Furthermore, Ramírez de la Piscina has at it´s disposal all the elements necessary to produce and preserve wines.

There we will taste one of the bodega’s famous wines: el Tinto Joven Ramírez de la Piscina. This is a young wine with was made with the “tempranillo” grape using the traditional carbonic maceration method. This process gives rise to bright red wines with fruity smells of raspberry and ripe grape. It feels meaty in your mouth with strong fruitiness and a pleasant and persistent effect on your nose.

In the morning we will visit the town of Briones and the Museum of Wine culture from the Vivanco Dynasty Foundation which offers a stroll through the history and culture of wine, a product associated to mythology and religion with a strong social presence, whose production requires work which gathers the essence of traditional labours, in the field as well as in the bodega.

During the session we will have the opportunity to try some of the region’s best wines (Txacoli, Rioja, and Ribera de Duero) and furthermore we will test the students’ abilities to follow the whole conversation in Spanish.

Remember that there are 3 aspects to wine tasting:

Visual analysis: colour, transparency, sheen, intensity, tinges of pigment and formation of bubbles.

Analysis of smell: fruity, floral, appreciating its purity, complexity and intensity

Analysing how it feels in your mouth: acidity, sweetness, texture of tannins and body, equilibrium, persistency of smells etc.





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