Recovering from a late night in Valencia, we drove to the coast for Oceanside paella which was one of the best yet though still doesn't compare to Thai or Indian.
Then it was three more hours of driving up to our winery B&B called Ca Solyerik. Helena, the owner, is a native Swede who lived in LA for 25 years where she became passionate about wine.
View from our B&B:
She now works to promote this little known wine region called Penedes. The local specialty is cava which is sparkling wine (basically champagne but the stupid Frenchies own the title). We had a lovely patio dinner before watching movies in her lounge room. 'Taken' is a good movie to watch at the end of travels, not before!
On our wine day, we started off the rainy day with a local market trip for olives and cherries.
Then we explored the Penedes wine region. Though cava is their main production, they also make reds and at the first stop, Castellroig, we ended up buying a bottle and sitting in their tasting room even though they were closed for siesta.
We then joined our tour at Freixenet, a cava brand that Mi Sou recalls seeing in the states. It was fascinating as this ginormous winery houses over 140 million bottles of cava in its seven underground levels.
Noreen returned from her day in Barcelona in time to meet us for a food-poisoning-inducing meal (for Erika only unfortunately) at a good Italian place. No bueno :(
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