New Delhi, Feb. 8 -- No other city has welcomed me more than Barcelona. I have visited it many times, as a backpacker with hardly any money, but just enough for a packet of chips for lunch and dinner, and a couple of Guinness at night. I started going back to the city to experience the wine regions of Spain once I ventured into the wine world.

If you love your vino, Barcelona is close to Cava country, Spain's answer to high quality sparkling wine in the region of Penedes, which is less than an hour away. For high quality reds, you must visit Priorat or Montsant about a couple of hours drive away from the city.

Barcelona is arguably one of the foremost culinary destinations with an expansive range of wines, and boasts of an energetic dri...