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...
Happy New Year to you!
Thank you for reading me during 2019, and I hope you’ll continue so doing in 2020, the rest of the new decade, and maybe...
On being a wine judge
Regretfully, I’ve just tendered my resignation from the Spanish Wine Judging Panel of the International Wine & Spirits Competition, the IWSC, held annually, now...
Celler Alimara
One of the things I like most about the new British owned and worked bodega Celler Alimara (http://celleralimara.com), is their quite obvious ‘connection’ with...
Wine with legs
It's largely an obsolete term nowadays, but there was a time when wines were sometimes referred to as having 'good legs'. If holding a...
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...
Canals y Munné are still sparkling
There are couple of puns in the title and I've plagiarised my own work from a few years ago - but hey, I'll make...
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...
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...
Boxing clever
Remember Watneys Part Sevens? The bitter inside was, to be fair, drinkable – that’s if there was ever any left after ‘opening’ the can!...
DO Plà de Bages
In wine terms, whenever Cataluña is mentioned we all probably think Cava first. These days, certainly if you’ve been reading Cork Talk over the...
Denominación de Origen Yecla on English language radio!
A recent Cork Talk started off rather scathingly about the Denominación de Origen system in general, and in particular about some DOs where rumblings...
Grower cavas
There's quite a lot of talk in wine circles at the moment about Grower Champagnes. These are Champagnes made usually by small (the current...
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Benidorm locks-up again
To avoid residents from other regions breaking the lockdown and trying to reach holiday apartments in Benidorm this May 1 holiday weekend, local authorities...
Deep snow in Alicante province
With the north of Alicante province still on red alert for snow today (Monday), around half a metre has fallen in Banyeres de Mariola...
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...
