Our visit to Rioja Alavesa wineries and Laguardia – May 2013

The beautiful square in Laguardia where we had a lovely lazy lunch after visiting a winery

We revisited Rioja Alavesa last weekend and have come back buzzing from the trip.  Totally Spain has organised hundreds of holidays to Laguardia and neighbouring areas in the past decade and we continue to be bowled over by the [...]

Rioja Alavesa Has A New Luxury 4 Star Hotel

Continuing in it´s endeavours to become a world class destination for quality wine tourism, the Rioja Alavesa wine region now has a terrific new 30 bedroom and 3 suite, luxury 4 star hotel.   Officially opening on 16th March, it is called “Viura” after the white grape of the same name and is situated in [...]

Wineries of Castilla La Mancha

I had the pleasure of spending the last weekend of October discovering some of the amazing, smaller wineries to be found in the Castilla La Mancha region, the biggest wine region in Spain and perhaps the least known or least appreciated as a producer of quality wines. They do produce many excellent wines here although [...]