Haro La Rioja vineyards autumn
— the week the vineyards turned to copper.
Not only on a wall.
Haro La Rioja vineyards autumn, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“A small town of about eleven thousand at the western corner of La Rioja, ringed by some of the oldest vineyards in Spain. The Barrio de la Estación, the rail-side quarter built up after the Bordeaux merchants arrived in the nineteenth century, still holds the founding bodegas: López de Heredia, Muga, CVNE, La Rioja Alta, Bilbaínas, Roda. By late October the Tempranillo vines burn copper across the slopes around town, and the air smells of fermenting must. from the studio
The place, in three passes.
Haro is a town of about eleven thousand residents at the western edge of La Rioja, where the Ebro and Tirón rivers meet at roughly 479 metres above sea level. It sits in the Rioja Alta sub-zone of the Denominación de Origen Calificada Rioja, the older designation in Spanish wine law, recognised at its highest level in 1991. The Barrio de la Estación around the railway holds one of the densest concentrations of historic wineries in the world, with several founding houses still operating on their original parcels.
Tempranillo, the dominant red grape of the Rioja Alta, is normally harvested at Haro between late September and mid-October. The leaves then turn through gold to deep copper across the calcareous-clay slopes around town, holding their colour through much of November before falling. The harvest itself, the vendimia, is celebrated regionally on 8 September with the festival of the Virgen de la Vega. The fermentation smell — yeast, warm fruit, oak from the cellars — sits over the streets through October.
Haro is reached on the AP-68 motorway between Logroño (about fifty kilometres east) and Bilbao (about ninety kilometres north). The Barrio de la Estación clusters six founding bodegas within a ten-minute walk: López de Heredia (founded 1877), CVNE (1879), Bodegas Bilbaínas (1901), La Rioja Alta (1890), Muga (1932) and Roda (1987). Most offer scheduled tours by reservation, with a small number of walk-ins in shoulder season. The annual Batalla del Vino on 29 June soaks the town and the hill of Bilibio in young red.
