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The wines of Rioja 2025

by  |  30-06-2025

For those who don’t often coordinate large wine tastings in a region, you are sane. Thus, I will let you in on one key aspect as to how they usually come about and that’s to... more »

At the steps of Saint Paul

by  |  24-06-2025

I may not be particularly religious, but I believe in peaches and in Penedès, my beliefs are strong. If a partaker of the fermented grape, then the name Penedès will be familiar as a wine... more »

Talking about “Great Greek Wines” 2025

by  |  19-06-2025

I was fortunate to attend a tasting in April led by Yiannis Karakasis which looked at a sample from the Great Greek Wines competition that he founded. It was exciting to me as a) it’s... more »
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Les Freses, Alicante, Spain

by  |  17-06-2025

This is an interesting project by way of Alicante called, Les Freses in a small area call, Jesús Pobre. Located next to the Montgó mountain, they’re in the far northern reaches of the DO. I... more »

Why Collioure-Banyuls left the Roussillon CIVR

by  |  10-06-2025

The Conseil Interprofessionnel des Vins du Roussillon (CIVR) is the body charged with the overall regulation and promotion of the wines from Roussillon in Southern France; a region of 19,000ha of vineyards and over 400... more »

The wines of Collioure-Banyuls 2025

by  |  05-06-2025

For several years now, I’ve been compiling reports on the Roussillon region of Southern France. When tasting through the samples at the CIVR (the local regulatory and promotion body), there was always this brilliant moment... more »

The wines of Roussillon 2025

by  |  03-06-2025

There is nothing that’s static in the wine world. Thankfully this means that something which changed in Roussillon, was the weather. After several years of extreme drought which were exacerbated by the fact you can’t... more »