Slip into one of the tapas bars or taperias on Calle Laurel in the old town and they’ll pour you a dark Rioja wine alongside your tapas. It’s the most memorable and aromatic Spanish wine you’ll ever taste, made from the tempranillo black grape, deep purplish to the eye, full bodied, with a warm berry fruits taste and an aftertaste that’ll seemingly linger forever. In town, you can walk in medieval streets, see deliciously old churches with Gothic spires and doorways and a rendering by Michelangelo, and maybe even take a selfie on the arched stone bridge over the river Ebro. And if you pop over to the adjacent small town of Haro, you can go wine tasting bodega to bodega, trace the history of Rioja wine at the Museo del Vino, and, if you come for the annual Batalla de Vino on June 29, you can literally get doused in red wine – head to toe!