In praise of Spanish supermarket wines
Bet you didn’t see that coming!
Neither did I! If you look back at my articles (you can see many archived here www.colinharknessonwine.com click Articles,...
Spanish wines with a French spin
I'm not too bothered if the Champagne Police are about – they surely can't complain at my writing, and saying, that the winemaker who...
Bodegas in Alicante
Seems to me that Bodegas Bocopa has been around forever! It’s one of those constants on which we can rely - there’s always a...
A Bobal revisited
When I first tasted PF 100% Bobal from Bodegas Juan Antonio Ponce in 2017 I decided to demote it to the penultimate wine in...
Grandes Pagos de España
I’m not sure of the year, nor, for certain, the location (Alimentaria, I think, but it could have been Fenavin?) but these are simply...
Meeting Merlot
In August 2011, whilst serving on my first Spanish Wine Judging Panel (Denominación de Origen Rías Baixas Cata/Concurso), I was fortunate to meet and...
What have the Romans ever done for us?
You’ll remember the classic Monty Pythons sketch, I’m sure, though you might not have realised at the time that there is an oblique reference...
A little bird told me!
A wren, as a matter of fact! The rather cute emblem of Bodegas Paso-Primero which features on their labels giving a visual clue as...
Back to the future
With total incredulity I read a Tweet on Twitter last November, I think, whose thesis was that the Spanish wine world is stagnant! The...
Fizzing good wines from Bodegas Iniesta
As regular readers may remember, I used to be rather heavily involved in the world of football, from both amateur and professional perspectives. Like...
Wines without make-up!
When Pepe Mendoza was handed the mantle by his father, Enrique, founder of Bodegas Enrique Mendoza, (pictured), he certainly didn't sit on his laurels!...
The Bobal triumvirate
I guess like many these days, I don’t just rely on one news feed. Whatever else one might say about President Trump, he certainly...
Et tu, Brut?
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, in case you were wondering. However, it's the Brut part of the quote to which I refer in this, the Costa...
Craft beers in Benissa
When I first started teaching, September 1975, I hit it off immediately with my boss, Head of PE, Arthur Roberts, now, sadly no longer...
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Brexit passport rule changes
BRITISH people travelling within the European Union should be aware passport validity rules will change after December 31 because of Brexit.
During the current transition...
