TRAVEL INSPIRATION

When Time Out named the Picos de Europa the most beautiful place in the world, travelers who knew this corner of northern Spain simply nodded. Rising dramatically from the Cantabrian Sea, straddling Asturias, Cantabria, and Castile and León, their highest summit tops out at 2,650 metres. Cantabria wine and culinary travel offers a profound way to experience this landscape — not just as a vista to admire, but as a place that expresses itself through what it grows, pours, and p

Six wineries in two days. I expected them to blur together. How different could they really be? Same region, same Tempranillo grape, same process of turning fruit into wine. By the second afternoon, I thought, they'd all start to feel familiar. Ribera del Duero had other plans.