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...Gehry's trademark titanium curves on their skyline, but there they are. It took 10 years and $77 million, and Gehry's 43-suite hotel, vinotherapy spa and Michelin-starred restaurant opened at the 146-year-old bodega late last year. "I wanted to design something exciting, festive, because wine is pleasure," says Gehry. www.marquesderiscal.com...
...vision of 21st century winemaking. Towering 17.5 m above a glass floor, a giant mechanical arm delivers crushed grapes into the 72 stainless-steel tanks that line the circular walls. Even more impressive are two enormous caverns bored into the hillside that store 22,000 barrels of crianza. "Making wine used to be like a secret in the Rioja," says tour guide Nunia Noja. Now it's like the underground lab in a James Bond film. www.cvne.com...
...LOPEZ DE HEREDIA "We have always been sensitive to beauty," says Maria José López de Heredia, a fourth-generation winemaker, who commissioned British architect Zaha Hadid to design a wine-tasting shop for the winery's HQ in Haro. The result: a mirrored white bottlelike building incorporating a carved bar that Heredia's great-grandfather took to the 1910 Universal Exhibition in Brussels. Says López de Heredia, "My great-grandfather designed a bodega 129 years ago, and half of it is to be built still. Our dream is to finish it." www.lopezdeheredia.com
...equally warming, stroll down to PLAISIR DU CHOCOLAT, about a 15-minute walk from Edinburgh Castle. The opulent Art Nouveau café at 251 Canongate offers up chocolate as it was meant to be: rich, flavorful and complex. Founder and master chocolatier Bertrand Espouy treats chocolate as sommeliers would wine, with an emphasis on origin, terroir and manufacture. The café window features a mouthwatering display of exquisite house-made pastries and cakes, and inside, diners choose from a menu of hot chocolate drinks categorized by country of origin and percentage of cocoa...
...that Dunster’s masters, the Porters, are the reason Funster is so unfun. If the rumor isn’t true, Dunsterites really have no excuse.ELIOT: Eliot is home to Master Lino, who gives speeches about Dante and Charles Eliot flying over the Charles together at random, wine-sodden special dinners. The linoleum floors are straight out of the projects and the JCR is always booked, but at least you have the “Eliot House Mafia,” otherwise known as the Resident tutors, to get your back in your wars against the unfriendly dining...