{"id":399,"date":"2017-07-10T17:16:19","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T16:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.larioja.com\/a-ojo-de-buen-cubero\/?p=399"},"modified":"2017-07-10T17:18:45","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T16:18:45","slug":"old-rioja-vintages-tasting-special-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.larioja.com\/a-ojo-de-buen-cubero\/2017\/07\/10\/old-rioja-vintages-tasting-special-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"OLD RIOJA VINTAGES TASTING\u2026 SPECIAL FOR YOU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rioja is a landmark as far as wine is concerned. A tasteful land of power and magic, as we say in\u00a0<strong>exquisiterioja<\/strong>, where we serve wine tours, experiences and wine tasting events.<\/p>\n<p>Rioja\u00b4s winemaking history stretches back to Roman times. Being also important the foundation of\u00a0<strong>medieval monasteries<\/strong>\u00a0along the St. James Way in the Ebro river valley. But it was mainly from the 16th Century onwards that Rioja\u00b4s wine production developed steadily. It enjoyed a major boost in the late 19th Century, when the vineyards of France were devastated by phylloxera, so during 20-30 years French wine merchants arrived in Rioja seeking new wine supplies.<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1267\" src=\"\/\/www.exquisiterioja.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSC_0004-300x169.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.exquisiterioja.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSC_0004-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.exquisiterioja.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSC_0004-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.exquisiterioja.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSC_0004-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" alt=\"DSC_0004\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Train Station Wineries District, Haro<\/p>\n<p>That event led to the modernization of the wine making procedures and also sparked Rioja\u00b4s long-standing l<strong>ove affair with oak \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>http:\/\/www.exquisiterioja.com\/en\/english-old-rioja-vintages-tasting-special-for-you\/ Leer M\u00e1s<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rioja is a landmark as far as wine is concerned. A tasteful land of power and magic, as we say in\u00a0exquisiterioja, where we serve wine tours, experiences and wine tasting events. Rioja\u00b4s winemaking history stretches back to Roman times. Being also important the foundation of\u00a0medieval monasteries\u00a0along the St. James Way in the Ebro river valley. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.larioja.com\/a-ojo-de-buen-cubero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.larioja.com\/a-ojo-de-buen-cubero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.larioja.com\/a-ojo-de-buen-cubero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.larioja.com\/a-ojo-de-buen-cubero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.larioja.com\/a-ojo-de-buen-cubero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.larioja.com\/a-ojo-de-buen-cubero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.larioja.com\/a-ojo-de-buen-cubero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.larioja.com\/a-ojo-de-buen-cubero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.larioja.com\/a-ojo-de-buen-cubero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.larioja.com\/a-ojo-de-buen-cubero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}