For any wine lovers this is an amazing place. Under much of the old part of town is a maze of tunnels/caves for storing wine. We entered for a tour through Patriarch. 10 Euro and down these non descriptive spiral staircase into the caves below. We wandered through about a 100 meters of cave with more than a dozen off shoots and large side rooms all stacked with thousands of bottles of wine all labeled with lot numbers on sheets of slate hanging off each one. Some just a lot # while others had an open date. One such open date was near 2060. After the maze we ended in a series of tasting rooms. Before we entered we were given these specially shaped tasting cups. I have no idea what the off indentations were meant to do but, I will tell you the wine was amazing. The traditional tasting method involves smelling, sipping, swishing and spitting. I can tell you I was not about to do any spitting at all and none did I do. The really good ones had to be tasted at least twice to make sure they were truly as good as we thought.
Outside the caves, which we only left because it was closing time, is a town filled with amazing architecture surrounding narrow streets filled with shops.
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