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A street with two names. One of many, making navigation extra-special. - IMG_2543
Most of the grapevines were sporting their red autumn finery. - IMG_2544
mountain, valley, vines - IMG_2546
whoops, we're zoomed in - IMG_2547
There we are! Arm-out shot with the view from Haro. - IMG_2548
Even mid-day, the late-autumn light and the clouds often looked like sunset. - IMG_2550
Bryan peruses some wine in a Haro shop. We left with a bottle each of Crianza, Reserva, and Gran Reserva, three designations of various age and quality in Rioja wines. - IMG_2551
random scene in town - IMG_2552
Storks' nest. We saw plenty of nests but no birds, which must have sought warmer climbs for the winter. Apparently storks are a whole big thing. - IMG_2555
Vineyard and the small town of Briones. - IMG_2557
Leslie gets personal with some wine grapes. - IMG_2558
Leslie, vineyard - IMG_2559
another look at Briones from the parking lot of the Dinastia Vivanco museum - IMG_2562
Spanish grape varieties - IMG_2563
photo and tools used by winemakers of the 19th century - IMG_2564
This museum had a fabulous amount of historical equipment for wine growing, harvesting, pressing, bottling... - IMG_2565
Bryan poses and Leslie fails to align a shot with a giant old wine press. - IMG_2566
more old presses - IMG_2567
barrel-making exhibit - IMG_2568
corks-in-progress - IMG_2569
more tools for barrel-making - IMG_2570
another giant-ass press - IMG_2571
a triple-press, each with an individual, religiousy name - IMG_2572
An exhibit with all the aromas found in Rioja wine, smellable - IMG_2573
an exhibit of wine-related fine art - IMG_2574
okay, and popular art - IMG_0065
the real wine cellars - IMG_2575
purportedly the world's largest corkscrew collection - IMG_0066
including the inevitably naughty ones - IMG_0067
another playground! this one wine-grape themed