Yesterday my friends and I took about an hour and a half bus ride to Ronda. We walked around the city for a while and it was truly a beautiful city. There were really breathtaking views of Spain throughout the city.
We took a trolley ride to the Feria of Ronda. Their feria is for animals so there were chickens and donkeys and horses. It was not like the Feria of Sevilla (I don’t think anything could ever measure up to the Feria of Sevilla).

Then we did our wine tour. First we walked around the old wine house that is now a museum. During this we had three different wines we could help ourselves to. After, we sat at a table with three different red wines in glasses in front of us. Our guide explained to us how to first look at, then smell and finally taste our wine. First you want to tilt the glass to see how transparent the wine is. Next, you swish the wine around the glass to see how quickly the wine falls back down. This is to see how thick or thin the wine is. After, you move to the next sense. At first, you just smell the wine to see what the primary flavors are. Then you swish the wine around in the glass and smell again to see the secondary flavors. Finally, you move to the final sense-taste. First you just take a sip and see how it tastes. Next you can swish it around in your mouth a bit and breathe out through your nose. This will show you the third flavor in the wine.

We tasted a 2006, a 2007 and 2008 wine. She explained that 2006 and 2007 were years with a lot of rain where as 2008 was not. The different climates the grapes were grown in makes the difference in the flavor of the wine.

After the guided tour of wine tasting, we were able to taste a few more wines. The wines that were saved for last were all of the “sweet wines.”

This was something I definitely wanted to do while I was in Spain and I had a great time doing it. We shared a lot of laughs and really enjoyed ourselves in Ronda.

Location: Ronda, Spain