00:59Spain: All night wine fight makes room for the kids
A traditional festival to mark St Peter's Feast Day began in the town of Haro, a municipality in the La Rioja province of northern Spain on Thursday, with children and their relatives filling wooden casks with red grape juice to then throw at one another.
As the main part of the La Batalla de Vino de Haro, or the Wine Fight Festival, involves real wine and thousands of adults engaging in a mass wine battle, organisers decided a few years ago to make one suitable for children, minus the alcohol.
Come June 29, Haro town will see thousands of wine enthusiasts climb a mountain in La Rioja, after street parties which go on all night the day before, with wine soaked revelry taking place for yet another wine-throwing battle.
00:59A traditional festival to mark St Peter's Feast Day began in the town of Haro, a municipality in the La Rioja province of northern Spain on Thursday, with children and their relatives filling wooden casks with red grape juice to then throw at one another.
As the main part of the La Batalla de Vino de Haro, or the Wine Fight Festival, involves real wine and thousands of adults engaging in a mass wine battle, organisers decided a few years ago to make one suitable for children, minus the alcohol.
Come June 29, Haro town will see thousands of wine enthusiasts climb a mountain in La Rioja, after street parties which go on all night the day before, with wine soaked revelry taking place for yet another wine-throwing battle.