Day Five in Barcelona

What a beautiful way to end the day! Q2 and I were walking back from visiting Sagrada Familia and saw a sign for a wine tasting at a boutique wine shop called Seleccio Natural just steps away from our apartment. We walked to Seleccio Natural to find out more information and discovered that the tasting would be featuring local Catalan wine and other boutique vineyards. We decided to stop by the pharmacy to pick up some toiletries, drop off our bags at the apartment, and head back to the wine store.

We sampled four wines from different regions of Spain including Ribera del Duero, Penedes, and Montesant. We learned about the oaking process and the different grapes and climates for producing wine in Spain. The goal of Seleccio Natural was to educate people about Spanish wines outside of Rioja and in particular the boutique vineyards. The best of the four wines that we tried was from Montesant, a young but spicy red wine, produced by the son of a famous French winemaker.

Like many of the individuals that we’ve encountered in the past few days, the woman helping us had moved to Barcelona from another European country. Originally from the northernmost region of Sweden, she moved to Barcelona with her boyfriend who is Columbian. She shared her outlook on Barcelona, the people, and culture. A proud people, Catalonian people are considered the “Germans” of Spain- hard working, private, and socially conservative.





























Over the course of the tasting, we also made conversation with a San Franciscan that had moved to Barcelona to live with his boyfriend and a vacationing Spaniard. The communal feel (and four healthy servings) left us feeling quite warm and fuzzy!