Final Musical Dinner with Paired Wines 2017
Our final Musical Dinner with Paired Wines of 2017 was held early December in Moraira harbour’s Club Nautico Restaurant. Whilst such dinners are usually...
Sparkling wine made by the ancestral method!
So, Dom Pérignon invented the method by which Champagne is made. Well, no actually! It is true that Dom Pérignon and his fellow monks...
Proving an old proverb wrong(ish)!
The old proverb - 'You can't teach and old dog new tricks.'
The meaning - please read on!
I'm writing this article the day after my...
Land grab!
I’m writing this on the final day of the debate in the Catalan Parliament that will determine if the autonomous regional government goes ahead...
Wine tourism in Spain
I’m delighted to read that in 2016 wine tourism in Spain, ‘Enoturismo’, registered an increase of 21% in terms of visitor compared to the...
Another French paradox
My lovely wife isn't going to like this! A confirmed, committed Francophile who lived in several different parts of France, she won't hear of...
Closure and a new era for cava
Yes, a touch oxymoronic, I agree, but sit back, cava glass (no more than two thirds full) in hand and please read on –...
The wines of northern Spain
So, here’s me thinking I know a bit about Spanish wine (and I do too), but my knowledge, expertise and experience over the last...
Wine & tapas in Jávea
I remember sneaking out from Chester College bar one night with my good old pal, Dick. Not for us, this night, the PE student's...
Denominación de Origen Almansa
In the Ayuntamiento, Town Hall, of Almansa there’s an impressive tiled mural depicting the battle that occurred near the town in 1707 during the...
The monovarietals of La Mancha
Agreed – it’s not a word in common use, except amongst the anorak-clad personnel of the wine world, like myself (although I actually eschew...
New kid on the block
Although, to my uneducated eye, the verdant valley that separates the sleepy villages of Llíber and Jalón in the Alicante province looks as if...
Son mis amigos!
As readers may know, I present rather a lot of wine tastings. I love them!
It's a chance to further champion the wonderful wines of...
La guerre des vins and its implications
I'm quite sure that the perpetrators of the recent (Jan. 2017), surely criminal, acts of vandalism targeting Spanish bulk wine tankers just over the...
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