Haro Rioja photo essay
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Haro (silent ‘h’) is all about Rioja wine … those luscious, juicy Tempranillo, Grenache and Carignan (among other cultivars) reds. Hey, Ernest Hemingway liked it enough to hang out for a while. And where else is there a yearly Batalla del Vino, a battle of wine, staged on a nearby mountain where the townsfolk dress in white, then raucously lob fermented red juice over each other from buckets and wineskins?
Haro (silent ‘h’) is all about Rioja wine … those luscious, juicy Tempranillo, Grenache and Carignan reds (among other cultivars). Hey, Ernest Hemingway liked it enough to hang out for a while. And where else is there a yearly Batalla del Vino, a battle of wine, staged on a nearby mountain where the townsfolk dress in white, then raucously lob fermented red juice over each other from buckets and wineskins? These days it’s immensely good-natured but the festival’s origins are rooted in vineyard boundary spats of earlier times. Haro also has a sense of humour ꟷ witness the giant building mural of a couple of happily sozzled wine drinkers being hauled away by a moustachioed policía. But there’s also a lot of history to the town and the architecture spans many, many centuries.
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