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The state of wine media & wine Substacks 2025

by  |  11-09-2025 ~ 8 Comments

It's time for a new look at the current state of wine media, taking into account the large upswing in people creating their own, independent newsletters, which has resulted in very new version of, The... more »

The wines of DO Terra Alta 2025

by  |  20-08-2025

With the release of the accompanying Tasting Report, it’s time to have another look at the wines of DO Terra Alta. As always, please review last year’s report for additional background. While the most southern... more »

The Perelada Experience

by  |  05-08-2025

Ages ago (maybe even before the pandemic but I can’t be sure) I was preparing to lead a wine tasting for a group of people in Priorat. One of the younger members of the group... more »

Why is Priorat so expensive?

by  |  25-07-2025 ~ 2 Comments

With the release of the most-recent Priorat Report, it's worth taking a look at one of the most-asked questions about the wines of DOQ Priorat which is, "What are they so expensive?" There are many... more »

The wines of DOQ Priorat & DO Montsant 2025

by  |  22-07-2025

We arrive to the middle of another (and much greener) year, thus it’s time to release the annual report for DOQ Priorat and DO Montsant! Please view the Priorat and Montsant Tasting Reports where I’ve... more »

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 »

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 »

The wines of Croatia 2025

by  |  13-05-2025

“No alarms and no surprises.” It’s not often that you get to use a Radiohead lyric in a wine report, but I can’t think of a better way to summarize the state of wine in... more »