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The DO Penedès has been on the move lately. The biggest news of course is their ten-year plan where they’ve set up a system under the Vi de Mas for vineyard classifications. Even more impressive... more »
The DO Penedès has been on the move lately. The biggest news... more »
At the end of February I booked a morning to go check out what Enric Soler has been up to lately with his wines. Sometime back I’d visited Enric for a larger profile about smaller... more »
At the end of February I booked a morning to go check... more »
After tasting Textures de Pedra last year, I realized a visit to the winery of Raventós i Blanc was long overdue so I finally went once movement restrictions were lifted back in March. Upon arriving,... more »
After tasting Textures de Pedra last year, I realized a visit to... more »
Recaredo has always played something of a long game when it comes to their wines. Even their most “basic” wine, the Terrers sees 32 months of aging, putting it at the level of Gran Reserva–if... more »
Recaredo has always played something of a long game when it comes... more »
In tasting samples for articles about the Penedès region, the wines from one winery would continually appear in the top. For an article about the white wines in Penedès, “La Calma” was one of the... more »
In tasting samples for articles about the Penedès region, the wines from... more »
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 »
It would have been hard to avoid the news of Cameron Diaz... more »
As is often the case, we’d just passed May 40th when summer suddenly exploded out of nowhere here in Spain. It seems that overnight we went from chilly nights and massive, biblical rains (that have... more »
As is often the case, we’d just passed May 40th when summer... more »
In the Variety Profile for Xarel·lo that just went out this week, I made a mention about delicate use of skin contact to coax even more out of what is already a great grape. This... more »
In the Variety Profile for Xarel·lo that just went out this week,... more »
Workhorse. Backbone. Structured. Aromatic. Evolving. These are but a few words one can put forth when talking about the grape, Xarel·lo and they’re all true–even if some people might say them with a curled lip... more »
Workhorse. Backbone. Structured. Aromatic. Evolving. These are but a few words one... more »
“To date, we still don’t know how long Xarel·lo can ultimately age.” I’ve heard this oft-repeated about this white grape variety over the years, but the very first time I heard it was from Ton... more »
“To date, we still don’t know how long Xarel·lo can ultimately age.”... more »