Guggenheim at Bilbao

Well, I didn’t make it to the Marqués de Riscal winery…but I ended up at another Frank Gehry building: the Guggenheim at Bilbao. And what a astonishing building this is. Definitely worth a trip to Bilbao.

On the wine side I do not have to report much. We went to El Rogelio, a little restaurant mentioned with a bib gourmand in the Guide Michelin. Lovely food but they need to do something about the poisonous green paint that is used to cover their walls. I ordered an albariño of Bodegas Martin Códax. Plain simple and satisfying wine. Nevertheless, I was disappointed by the small range of white wines on the wine list. Being close to Rioja, it are the reds that get all the attention on the list.

However in a city where fish (merluza (=hake), bacalao (=cod)) is the specialty, you would hope for a more extensive list of white wines. Better next time.

Have a nice wine with fish today!
Bart