DO Montilla-Moriles
For some odd reason I cannot trace the article I wrote, having visited Bodegas Pérez Barquero, DO Montilla-Moriles, Andalucía. I’d like to put a...
In the rolling hills of DO Navarra
I recently received a selection of four most enjoyable wines from DO Navarra, by a rather circuitous route!
My great Welsh pal, Geraint (not colloquially...
Alicante old bus station wines!
Anybody who’d been away from Alicante for a few years would have been pleasantly surprised if they’d returned, perhaps looking for the number 48...
Wine tourism – Part two
This week I’m celebrating again the encouraging success story of Spanish wine tourism, a now burgeoning, integral part of the Spanish wine industry!
A recent...
Strawberry Fields
‘Let me take you down, ‘cos I’m going to, Strawberry Fields,’ yes, you got it straight away, the Beatles, and, as a ‘Plastic Scouser’...
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...
Misogyny in the wine sector
How are you?
Me? Well, thanks for asking. Actually I’m feeling a little metaphorically battered and bruised to be honest. And, talking of being honest,...
Wine under flor
Thinking about it now, all those years later, I find it quite unbelievable that I didn’t study Science at school! I’m the first to...
In praise of wine bars
It was 1974. We were well into the second year of our PE Teacher training course at Chester Uni. The college bar was doing...
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!...
English Sparkling Wine – The Jávea connection!
Jávea, that three-part harmony of a town, on the Costa Blanca, which nestles between the, historically, more famous, Denia, and the ever more chic,...
Jammy git!
If you knew my brother you’d guess this was going to be about him! He’s led a charmed life, has ‘our Al’, but no,...
All hail change in DOCa. Rioja?
On Saturday 20th May, when I had just returned from judging in this year's annual D.O. Yecla wine competition, my phone, in vibration and...
Who’d be a wine-maker?
Two years ago, I visited the nascent vineyard of Jody and John, respectively from California and Wirral, UK.
Jody is a world-renowned expert (www.limoce.com) on...
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