One of the summer highlights of Spain’s wine tourism industry, this year’s Somontano Festival offered revellers a mix of music, theatre, magic, tapas and tastings.
More than 72,000 tapas and the same number of wines were served at the star of the show, the Gastronomic Exhibition, during four days of festivities in an expanded setting bustling with activities both day and night.
Other highlights included a gathering of specialist bloggers, which was the third “Trending Topic” in Spain on the Saturday morning, an “Eco-Glass” promotional train and sustainability campaign; and the inaugural “Best Tapas” competition.
The main prize was won by the Las Torres restaurant in Huesca, for its “Radiquero cheese with tomato powder and chilli gel”. Second was a tapa of “lamb meat balls with sobrasada (cured pork sausage) honey and potato” presented by Flor de Barbastro restaurant; and joint third, “crème brûlée of white chocolate toasted on a sablé cake base” from Pastelería Iris, and “ox-tail cannelloni” from the La Feria restaurant, both in Barbastro. 
In a vote by members of the public, a “puffed pastry of apple, foie and caramelised Radiquero cheese”, from the Tres Caminos restaurant in El Grado, was named “Most Popular Tapa, and it also took the prize for “Best Gluten-Free Tapa”.
