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Queirón, a new memory in Rioja

As a child, Gabriel Pérez would run through his parents’ vineyards in Quel. Although there wasn’t a corner of the Sierra de Yerga that he didn’t know like the back of his hand, there was a special enclave called La Pasada: the highest, most remote and most inaccessible place in the land of his childhood. His father Gregorio told him that there had always been vineyards

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