Federico Paternina? What soon will come my grandfather? Recurring commonplace idea of \u200b\u200ba generation that, like mine, grew up in the wines derroteo of Parras and the presence of quasi-invincible Rioja marquis names. This is not a Rioja!, Cried my father, like many others, to taste one of those new generation Riojas, red fruit with full transparency, without a substantial recurring harassment of wood, distinctive and eloquent of all a style whose empire also hid the sun. the sidewalk is not tropical, but highlights the warmth in La Rioja leaving their marks on the shoots of the vines. Arrival Ollauri, the mythical town that is home to Patel and Beronia, among most famous wineries, the first, no doubt, an icon of the global wine industry.
"You know what he said Sabina Patel on?" Exclaims Carlos Latas, manager of the winery. Of course. "Hey, Sabina / beware Patel / Red wine and rock'n'roll." That also is generational, I guess. But what I can come to teach in Patel, to us that, as noted, almost in unison Alejandro Zárate and myself, grew up with wine. "They were the wines from our parents." The diligent eye and smile barely hinted at the winemaker Carlos Estecha came to applaud and enjoy that comment, but also to give a twist to the visit: how about a historic tasting Patel? 54, 58, 70 .... Reds to sing an aria in the cup for a bel die within minutes. Have to entertain. Ollauri
The hamlet of, says the official history of the people, shows a staggered arrangement, with reference to the lower parts of the town, to be taking up with longitudinal and cross streets. The highest places of the village up its famous wineries.
On the origin of the town and its name there are several hypotheses. It is evident from the name of Basque origin Ollauri, like other nearby towns and the place names of the municipality. While documenting an earlier population, the town existed as such since the sixteenth century, as evidenced by documents at the municipal and parish archives. In a reference
XVI century municipal file reads: "in place of Ullauri, village and jurisdiction of the town of Briones ..." Ollauri Since the fifteenth century, like Brown, is a place of mastery, specifically the Bay of Pigs, the future Duke of Osuna. Until the early eighteenth century, therefore, Ollauri with Gimileo Rodezno and depended on the next town of Briones. But in 1712, reigning in Spain's first Bourbon king Philip V, Briones Ollauri and dissociated himself from was established in villa with its own Town Hall.
The topography of the town speaks for itself and the various chimneys that stand out in many areas, noting the characteristic reiterate the region, a kind of grottoes and caves that are the essence of many of the wineries, such as Patel also where the cobra cava essence of a true cathedral of wine, with the natural patina and soul of centuries, processes, glare and leaks about these wonderful wines that are the essence and spirit of the region. These are wines in a catatonic state, alive but not so smart, but definitely not dead dead, saving an enigma inside. It is a labyrinthine walk smells like wine, it tastes like legend and that can only magnify the history of a name and a cellar.
In that walk among racks, shades and riddles wine, and I ask Carlos Latas on the status of Rioja in the Civil War years. "It really was not much affected, relative to other regions, and that will clear by the number of bottles they have in different years, as there was no great movement of troops were available wines. That is the most eloquent and clear sign of when such a catastrophe affects the story of a wine region. "
A lesson of history, traditions, wine tourism as a projection activity that revitalizes and maintains in force even those who appear which are hardly classic novel, not forgetting of course that's the paradox of the classic that sometimes we forget. In that, without doubt, my grandfather would agree.
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