Articles
Wine in the Costa Brava & Empordà
by Miquel Hudin | 10-04-2012
It became official with National Geographic listing the Costa Brava as one of their Best Trips of 2012. But wait, Spain (and more to the point, Catalonia) has been welcoming tourists for decades. Isn't this... more »
In The Glass: Oliver Conti Turó Negre 2009
by Miquel Hudin | 07-04-2012
Oliver Conti county is a fine winery up in the Alt Empordà of Catalonia, Spain. We talk about them a great deal more in our Empordà wine guide, but suffice to say, you'll more than... more »
One week to Zagreb and the Wine Gourmet Weekend
by Miquel Hudin | 05-04-2012 ~ 2 Comments
In a week, I'll be touching down at Pleso International in Zagreb to dig in to three days of Croatian wines *. While I'm not a huge fan of queuing up to tables and rushing... more »
The quietly fantastic wines of Martí Fabra
by Miquel Hudin | 03-04-2012
When it comes to making wines for a long time, the Martí Fabra family has been doing it since the end of the 13th century; maybe even earlier. The date of their old family house... more »
Međugorje’s Stankela
by Miquel Hudin | 28-03-2012
The history of Stankela goes back officially for 50 years and is based in a 400 year-old home in Međugorje literally right next door to the winery, AG. They produce about 30,000 liters from two... more »
The detritus of a Cava tasting
by Miquel Hudin | 24-03-2012
You open up a lot of Cava, you get a lot of corks as shown by the photo above. Yesterday we visited the cellars of Mont Ferrant, who are apparently the oldest Cava maker in... more »
In The Glass: Cellers d’en Guilla Magenc 2011
by Miquel Hudin | 22-03-2012
A small and very, very new winery in the village of Delfià, Cellers d'en Guilla (literally, "the fox's wineries") is making some interesting new wines that are very true and honest to the grapes in... more »
Tasting around Annandale
by Miquel Hudin | 21-03-2012
The Annandale estate, just off the namesake Annadale Road was established in 1688, making it one of the oldest in the Helderberg Valley region. It displays this age wonderfully as large, sweeping willows grace the... more »
Climbing the terraces of Hugas de Batlle
by Miquel Hudin | 15-03-2012
Without a doubt, it had to be the dumbest time in recent history to be traipsing about the mountains of upper Empordà. While the Tramuntana is a wind that blows all year long, it was... more »
Finding Matković Plavac Mali
by Miquel Hudin | 12-03-2012 ~ 1 Comment
The Croatian postal system has this 'fun' tendency to put smaller towns in to a bigger town's postal code. Well, actually, most of Europe does this. But, in the case of Matković who is the... more »