Thursday, October 20, 2011

Amuse Bouche: CANONS FORCED TO DRINK CIDER


CANONS FORCED TO DRINK CIDER
“....wine was regarded much more highly, as attested by King Alfonso IX’s decree of 1213, in which he pitied the poor canons in Galicia’s Lugo cathedral who were forced to drink cider and made them a large gift of Ribadavia wine (from what we now know as the Ribeiro).” From The Finest Wines of Rioja by Jesus Barquin, Luis Gutierrez and Victor De La Serna.

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