Catalan Wines
ReWine & the bottle: Using a resource in plain sight
by Miquel Hudin | 30-11-2020 ~ 6 Comments
The memories are hazy from when I was a child walking into the first supermarket in my hometown. There was a glass front to the store which let in a stream of daylight. It always... more »
Transparency, in wine certification
by Miquel Hudin | 20-11-2020 ~ 2 Comments
I moved to Berkeley, California to complete a degree in English Literature at the University of California. Coming from a podunk town in the interior of California where most academic challenges top out at giving... more »
From Cape Chianti to hero: Grenache in South Africa
by Malu Lambert | 26-10-2020
“I grew up with Grenache,” shares South African wine legend, Jan Boland Coetzee. His pale blue eyes focused on the verdant Swartland hills from our vantage point on Adi Badenhorst’s porch. The crops and vines... more »
The nitty & gritty about The Wine Instagram
by Elia VS | 09-10-2020 ~ 1 Comment
Lockdown brought about an exponential increase in my social media screen time to the point of saturation and forced me to re-evaluate the good, the bad and the ugly of both Twitter and Instagram. My... more »
Rethinking the wine writing award
by Miquel Hudin | 23-09-2020 ~ 7 Comments
This recent article by Alicia Kennedy held one of the most insightful and powerful comments I've seen in some time regarding awards: Awards reinforce hegemonic narratives of industries that uphold the oppressive structures that govern... more »
WSET vs CMS
by Miquel Hudin | 20-08-2020 ~ 26 Comments
Wine education is something not to be undertaken lightly. There's the investment of time and, well, a great deal of money. There's also the issue of choosing the right direction which can be hard to... more »
What’s a Sommelier?
by Miquel Hudin | 27-07-2020 ~ 14 Comments
The sommelier. What was once just the guy in the room with a corkscrew has become one of the sexier titles to hold these days. But what does it mean? The most basic definition of... more »
Avaline wine and transparent production
by Miquel Hudin | 20-07-2020 ~ 7 Comments
It would have been hard to avoid the news of Cameron Diaz and Katherine Power launching their white and rosé "Avaline" wine last week. In what was an amazing-to-behold marketing campaign, their PR firm, KLG... more »
A love affair with Assyrtiko
by Lenka Sedláčková | 24-06-2020 ~ 3 Comments
Scrolling through my Instagram feed, you may think that I am a bit of an Assyrtiko fan girl and you'd not be wrong. Fuelled by my love of all things Greek, I studied the language... more »
Don’t come around here no more
by Miquel Hudin | 04-06-2020 ~ 4 Comments
It was amazing to see so much work put into such a campaign in Priorat. It was after all shared widely across social media. Our village notice systems were constantly broadcasting it as well. Even... more »