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Catching up with Enric Soler’s latest Xarel·los
by Miquel Hudin | 18-04-2022
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 »
Pepe Raventós – Mas del Serral 2010
by Miquel Hudin | 10-11-2021
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 »
Recaredo Enoteca Reserva Particular 2004. Full Stop.
by Miquel Hudin | 16-11-2020
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 »
Finding Clímax in Can Ràfols dels Caus
by Miquel Hudin | 11-09-2020
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 »
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 »
Six wines from Penedès to know right now
by Miquel Hudin | 26-06-2020
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 »
Xarel·lo: A modern rockstar
by Miquel Hudin | 05-06-2020
Xarel·lo is the only grape in the world spelled with a (·) or punt volat, something of a thumb to the nose of “the man”. Then it, proudly presents a middle finger to all English... more »
In The Glass: Celler Descregut – Horafosca 2017
by Miquel Hudin | 22-04-2020
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 »
The wines from Xarel·lo in Penedès 2020
by Miquel Hudin | 20-04-2020
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 »
The eternity of Xarel·lo: Parés Baltà – Electió 2004
by Miquel Hudin | 03-04-2020
“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 »