History can be an incredible teacher if of course one is willing to listen. This is doubly so in wine when it comes to tasting what was done in the past and it’s why vertical tastings (running through a series of different years of the same wine) are important to have from time to time. This is why when Marta Casas, the enologist at Parés Baltà in Penedès asked me if I wanted to come up and taste through a series of older vintages with her, the only question I […]

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