{"id":9574,"date":"2019-02-13T09:12:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T08:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.winebus.es\/?p=9574"},"modified":"2021-06-02T10:19:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T08:19:12","slug":"sancho-panza-was-a-wine-lover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.winebus.es\/en\/2019\/02\/13\/sancho-panza-was-a-wine-lover\/","title":{"rendered":"Sancho Panza was a winelover of the 17th century"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Sancho Panza is drinking wine in front of the windmills of La Mancha.<\/h2>\n<p>We can see this image during our <a title=\"Don Quixote Wine Tours\" href=\"https:\/\/beta.winebus.es\/en\/product\/windmills-of-don-quixote-wine-tour-from-madrid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Don Quixote Wine Tours<\/a> to La Mancha<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spain is the country of thousands of wines.<\/strong> There are <strong>70 denominations of origin in the whole country<\/strong> and <strong>several thousand wineries<\/strong> all over the place.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wine has been in our culture for more than 2000 years ago.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Some wine purist people, when tasting wines,<\/strong> want to focus on the organoleptic characteristics of our wines. This is a criterion I respect but <strong>we do a different approach.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In our approach, <strong>we try to show our visitors not only our wines but also our history. Our history as our wines are very attractive<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dDUPu6tMWHY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Why should you read Don Quixote?<\/p>\n<p>And one of the things we do is to<strong> follow Don Quixote and Sancho Panza<\/strong> while they go north and south <strong>in La Mancha.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We love the windmills<\/strong> of La Mancha. The <a title=\"are as romantic as the story of Don Quixote.\" href=\"https:\/\/beta.winebus.es\/en\/2019\/04\/25\/english-dulcinea-looks-at-don-quixote\/\">windmills <strong>are as romantic as the story of Don Quixote<\/strong><\/a><a title=\"are as romantic as the story of Don Quixote.\" href=\"https:\/\/beta.winebus.es\/en\/2019\/04\/25\/english-dulcinea-looks-at-don-quixote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We say in Spanish that <strong>to have a \u201cQuijotesca\u201d attitude<\/strong> <strong>means defending the weak against the strong<\/strong> or <strong>defending lost causes with a high risk of getting damaged<\/strong>. Our common sense is telling to fly from risks and to go with the flow.<\/p>\n<h2>What does Don Quixote represent in the book of Miguel de Cervantes?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Don Quixote, with a slim complexion and lean face, as a symbol, represents the ordinary man in search of an ideal, of an invisible world and, despite the fact that the purpose of the trip remains unattainable, the idea of \u200b\u200bachieving it remains active until the end.<\/li>\n<li>He is someone that is going against the flow.<\/li>\n<li>We are told all the time that the wisest thing to do in our lives is to go with the flow, but we secretly admire those who go against the flow. And much more if they succeed.\u00a0 We admire people who fail, but who have the courage to try again in the hope that they will succeed next time.<\/li>\n<li>We say in Spanish that those people are having a \u201cQuijotesca\u201d attitude<\/li>\n<li>The windmills are part of our past. They are not necessary anymore with the apparition of the machine of power. Even though they stand proud <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?ei=dgBiXKPECYyMlwTC3r-YAQ&amp;q=windmills+like+giants&amp;oq=windmills+like+giants&amp;gs_l=psy-ab.12...60276.64862..67260...0.0..0.347.1836.1j7j2j1......0....1j2..gws-wiz.......35i39j0i131j0j0i10j0i203.cF4YnN2WG2k\">like giants<\/a> in the top of several hills of the immense plain of La Mancha.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What does Sancho Panza represent?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Sancho is the representation of reality and the practical, accompanied by enormous popular and practical wisdom since in pressing moments, he advised Don Quixote through sayings while remaining faithful to him for the promise of receiving for his labors an Insula to govern.<\/li>\n<li><strong>To see <a href=\"http:\/\/standpointmag.co.uk\/wine-march-12-quixotic-connoisseurs-saintsbury-don-quixote-sancho-panza-wine-tasting\">Sancho Panza drinking wine<\/a> with a \u201cbota\u201d<\/strong> (typical way of drinking in the past on this country) is telling us that our tradition of making and drinking wine is for centuries. To see Sancho Panza drinking wine in the middle of La Mancha is a pleasure.<\/li>\n<li>In our case, <strong>we accompany Sancho with our own glass of wine<\/strong>. Because <strong>everything is better with a glass of wine in hand<\/strong>. \u00a0Cheers, my friends!<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAccept what life offers you and try to\u00a0<em>drink<\/em>\u00a0from\u00a0<em>every<\/em>\u00a0cup.\u00a0<a title=\"All wines should\u00a0be\u00a0tasted;\u00a0some should only\u00a0be\u00a0sipped,\u00a0but\u00a0with\u00a0others,\u00a0drink\u00a0the\u00a0whole bottle\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/107687-accept-what-life-offers-you-and-try-to-drink-from\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>All wines should<\/em>\u00a0be\u00a0<em>tasted<\/em>;\u00a0<em>some should only<\/em>\u00a0be\u00a0<em>sipped<\/em>,\u00a0<em>but<\/em>\u00a0with\u00a0<em>others<\/em>,\u00a0<em>drink<\/em>\u00a0the\u00a0<em>whole bottle<\/em><\/a>.\u201d Paulo Coelho<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Written by<\/p>\n<p>By Ignacio Segovia<\/p>\n<p>Ceo of Winebus.es<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sancho Panza is drinking wine in front of the windmills of La Mancha. We can see this image during our Don Quixote Wine Tours to La Mancha Spain is the country of thousands of wines. There are 70 denominations of origin in the whole country and several thousand wineries all over the place. Wine has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[929],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-winebus"],"blocksy_meta":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/beta.winebus.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Sancho-Panza-drinking.jpg",960,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/beta.winebus.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Sancho-Panza-drinking-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/beta.winebus.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Sancho-Panza-drinking-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/beta.winebus.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Sancho-Panza-drinking-768x576.jpg",768,576,true],"large":["https:\/\/beta.winebus.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Sancho-Panza-drinking.jpg",960,720,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/beta.winebus.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Sancho-Panza-drinking.jpg",960,720,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/beta.winebus.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Sancho-Panza-drinking.jpg",960,720,false],"woocommerce_archive_thumbnail":["https:\/\/beta.winebus.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Sancho-Panza-drinking-531x354.jpg",531,354,true],"woocommerce_thumbnail":["https:\/\/beta.winebus.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Sancho-Panza-drinking-531x354.jpg",531,354,true],"woocommerce_single":["https:\/\/beta.winebus.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Sancho-Panza-drinking-600x450.jpg",600,450,true],"woocommerce_gallery_thumbnail":["https:\/\/beta.winebus.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Sancho-Panza-drinking-100x100.jpg",100,100,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Ignacio Segovia","author_link":"https:\/\/beta.winebus.es\/en\/author\/igsegmar\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Sancho Panza is drinking wine in front of the windmills of La Mancha. 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