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by Elia | 31-12-2013
Back in October I spent a long weekend in the Chianti region of Tuscany and visited three quite different wineries that are all part of the Arezzo Wine Route. Read Part 1 of my recap... more »
Back in October I spent a long weekend in the Chianti region... more »
by Elia | 29-12-2013
Back in October, I was invited to attend an event in a small town in Tuscany for the 10th anniversary of the death of beloved Barcelonian writer Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. He was a smart man... more »
Back in October, I was invited to attend an event in a... more »
by Elia | 29-08-2013
While it’s hard to complain about the price of a glass of wine in Spain given that in San Francisco or New York, you can pay upwards of $12 in a wine bar, there’s plenty... more »
While it’s hard to complain about the price of a glass of... more »
by Elia | 17-06-2013
Read Part 1 of #ReusViuelVi Early in the morning on Saturday (June 8th) I was woken up by the loudest thunder and a tropical storm followed. That’s it, I thought, I was enjoying Reus too... more »
Read Part 1 of #ReusViuelVi Early in the morning on Saturday (June... more »
by Elia | 16-06-2013
Thanks to friend and blogger extraordinarie, Ruth Troyano I was lucky to be invited to the wine fair Reus Viu el Vi last weekend in, yes you’ve guessed it, the city of Reus about 130km... more »
Thanks to friend and blogger extraordinarie, Ruth Troyano I was lucky to... more »
by Elia | 06-04-2013
Having spent quite a bit of time in Priorat, blogging about it, and most importantly, drinking it, last Saturday I was invited to attend the 1st Cooperative Fair at the Castell del Vi museum in... more »
Having spent quite a bit of time in Priorat, blogging about it,... more »
by Elia | 26-02-2013
We’ve been huge fans of the bar-à-vins in the Moritz beer factory since before it opened last September. Yes, that’s right, Barcelona’s best wine bar (together with Monvínic) is by a beer company (and yes,... more »
We’ve been huge fans of the bar-à-vins in the Moritz beer factory... more »
by Elia | 02-10-2012
While we where in Priorat last weekend, our friend-in-blog, Ruth Troyano tipped us off to a promising event at the Falset castle, a historic building that has been turned in to a wine museum dashed... more »
While we where in Priorat last weekend, our friend-in-blog, Ruth Troyano tipped... more »
by Elia | 25-01-2011
Bermet is a sweet wine that is a specialty of northern Serbia’s Fruška Gora wine region, in the Vojvodina province that, while originally produced to be medicinal (like the original digestifs), is an interesting infused... more »
Bermet is a sweet wine that is a specialty of northern Serbia’s... more »
by Elia | 02-12-2010
This is an article from our archives that was previously run on another site in June, 2007. While staying in Catalonia for a few days, we set out from Figueres to make a day trip... more »
This is an article from our archives that was previously run on... more »
