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A gastronomic look at calçots & wine
by Miquel Hudin | 30-01-2025
When seeing a field of calçots for the first time, I think most people who know something about vegetables will have their first reaction be, “Oh, onions.” The lackluster response wouldn’t be wrong on the... more »
The wines of DO Tarragona 2024
by Miquel Hudin | 21-10-2024
Given the fine passage of time since the last report of DO Tarragona, it was time to do an update. A tasting earlier in October offered just the opportunity which you can see in the... more »
Five wines from Tarragona to know right now
by Miquel Hudin | 28-05-2021
The recent DO Tarragona report, showed that this is a region which can be a bit tricky to make sense of. It’s very large and has very distinct zones with a great many styles represented... more »
The wines of DO Tarragona in 2021
by Miquel Hudin | 19-04-2021
In general, Spain doesn’t see the minute, detailed, pebble-level analysis in wine texts that other countries such as France do. But even if one takes this into account, finding out much about DO Tarragona in... more »
DO Tarragona gets a different taste of the bubbly
by Miquel Hudin | 05-02-2021
DO Tarragona has just announced significant changes to their Plec de Condicions which are working to shape their regulatory rules to reflect the current market trends of wine, especially when it comes to bubbles. They’ve... more »
DO Tarragona also gets an update
by Miquel Hudin | 18-12-2018
About 3-4 years ago public money was made available for the various DOs in Catalunya to “app themselves”. Due to this, various apps popped up and various levels of maintenance ensued as once the projects... more »
DO Tarragona
by Editorial | 23-05-2016
Admittedly, DO Tarragona is not one of Catalonia's more well-known DOs. Part of this is that few of the wines produced in the region garner a good deal of fame despite the fact that historically,... more »
Being in the wine
by Miquel Hudin | 17-01-2015
You know how January can be, you're tired of your old place and so you close up shop at the end of December and start up somewhere else at the beginning of the year. It's... more »
10 Sentits is back with Cat Negre 2012
by Miquel Hudin | 11-12-2014
In Catalonia there exists a a marauding group of enologs who go anonymously as the "10 sentits" or "10 senses". I've met some who know a member or two, but it seems that no one... more »
Living Wine in Reus or #ReusViuelVi (Day 2)
by Elia VS | 17-06-2013 ~ 1 Comment
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 »