Food Through Wine

Food Through Wine: Tastavin, Rioja, Spain

by  |  16-07-2025

A regular series that reviews dining through the lens of wine both good… and bad. There are for me two types of people that eat in Logroño, the capital of Spain’s Rioja wine region. You... more »
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Bodegas la Horra, Ribera del Duero

by  |  07-07-2025

Bodegas la Horra doesn’t need much introduction, but a fine piece of recent news is that they’re just inaugurated their new winery. The overall project however, was founded in 2009 by the owners of Roda... 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 »
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Les Freses, Alicante, Spain

by  |  17-06-2025

This is an interesting project by way of Alicante called, Les Freses in a small area call, Jesús Pobre. Located next to the Montgó mountain, they’re in the far northern reaches of the DO. I... more »

A book review of, “Mallorca & Wine”

by  |  21-05-2025

About two years ago, a colleague of mine tried roping me into writing a book on the wines of Mallorca. I was all for it as Mallorca is gorgeous and there are some really interesting... more »

Hail destroys large portion of vineyards in Jumilla

by  |  19-05-2025

On the 10th of May, a massive hailstorm ripped through the Jumilla wine region, a ‘super autonomous’ denomination of origin in Spain spanning both Castilla-La Mancha and Murcia. In a short period of time, hail... more »

A look at the wines of Bizkaiko Txakolina 2025

by  |  07-05-2025

Don’t ask for the fizzy stuff… This was something of a mistake when I was tasting a selection of 10 wineries from the DO Bizkaiko Txakolina. The ‘fizzy stuff’ is the txakolina that most people... more »

The wines of Aragón 2025

by  |  27-03-2025

It was time to revisit the fine wines being produced in the region of Aragón which sits between Catalunya and Navarra/Rioja with both Castillas on its western flank and Valencia on its east. With higher... more »

Bodegas San Alejandro – Evodia 2023

by  |  10-03-2025

What goes around comes around and I mention that as this is not the first time that Evodia has been featured on the site for an In The Glass segment. The first time that it... more »

César Márquez – Parajes 2022

by  |  27-02-2025

So, what’s a paraje/paratge? Well, whether it’s in Castilian (*) or Catalan (respectively), it’s like, you know, a lieux dit or climat. This explanation is of course only useful if you a) speak French and... more »