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Let us make a toast for all of you dear readers, with a special Spanish wine from one of the most important wine regions in Spain, Ribera de Duero. We will introduce you today to this lovely region in the north of Spain, but before that, and to really understand Spain, you need to understand the importance of food for us.

The best way to drink and enjoy wine is by accompanying it with a “tapa”, in this occasion we are accompanying our wine with “Champiñones con Jamon” (Mushroom with ham and foie). If you go to Spain, you will hear people saying “vamos a tapear” meaning that we are going to have some tapas, going from one bar to another having a drink and a tapa. The origin of tapa comes from the old times when in bars they served a wine or a beer with a piece of bread with ham, chorizo, etc on top o the glass, tapa means cover in English.

Would you like to try and prepare these delicious mushrooms? First of all you have to empty the mushrooms, and cut the inside in little pieces. Then you fry them lightly, together with ham and green peppers. Once they are done, you fry the mushrooms with a little bit of olive oil, and stuff them with the mix, adding some foie on the top and a bit of sea salt. They are ready!

Coming back to wine, we´d like to introduce you today to Tinto Roa Crianza, it is a wine from “Vinos de Rauda” winery, founded in 1956 by a group of wine agricultures. Tempranillo is the only grape variety cultivated by this winery , they are irrigated by the Duero river. The color of the wine is cherry red with violet tones, its aroma is sweet, ripe fruit, harmoniously assembled with the pleasant aromas of the aging (balsamic, toasty, aromatic), and the taste is smooth, sweet and wide in the mouth with well-balanced tannins, good body and persistent in the finish.

Ribera de Duero is one of the most prestigious wine regions in Spain, including the provinces of Burgos, Valladolid, Soria and Segovia. The “D.O” origin denomination is hosted in the historic and singular Roa de Duero in Burgos. The village of Roa has a rich history and tradition of viticulture dating to the time of the Roman conquest of Iberia. Around 100 b.c., the Romans, captivated by the rich soil fed by the Duero river, founded Rauda, now known as Roa, where they first planted vines and were pioneers in the elaboration of wine through the latest techniques developed at the time.

But we will talk about this along our blog in coming posts, so be ready to discover with us our wines, and our food, and through it, also the Spanish history.