"Some of the most expensive wines in Spain come from the Rioja Alta and Rioja Alavesa regions," Pancho Campo, the founder and President of the wine Academy of Spain, says.

西班牙一些最昂贵的葡萄酒出自上里奥哈和里奥哈·阿拉韦萨地区。

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In 1890, five families co-founded La Rioja Alta, S. A. to make their dream come true – to make the very best fine wine.

1890年，五个家族共同出资设立了橡树河畔，开始了他们共同的梦想生产高品质的佳酿。

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Indeed, the gilded youth of Istanbul in their Italian clothes were sitting under huge windows through which the lights of Asia and the Bosphorus shone, drinking, like us, bottles of Rioja Alta.

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Rioja Alta astonishing to see a top Spanish wine in an Istanbul restaurant and Zeynep says that, in her mind, the tensions between the urban elite and their plush lifestyles and the Islamic-led government (and, for that matter, the mostly devout masses) could not be brushed under the carpet.

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