Bodega El Pimpi
Historic wine cellar tavern in an eighteenth-century mansion, its barrels chalked with celebrity signatures.
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This guide to Bodega El Pimpi in Malaga opens with a shortage: too many famous signatures for too few wine barrels. It goes back to 1971, when two young men from Cordoba took over an eighteenth-century mansion in the old town and turned a wine cellar into a literary salon, with weekly poetry readings still called Gloria's Fridays. A writers' contest followed, judged by two of Spain's best-known poets, and flamenco scholars later taught master classes in a room named for the pigeons that once nested there. Take a seat near the barrels lining the walls.
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