The big news in the Spanish wine scene at the moment is the announced closure of Lavinia’s “flagship” wine shop in Madrid. Located at C/ de José Ortega y Gasset 16 in the upscale Salamanca neighborhood, since 1999, it’s been viewed as “the” reference wine shop in Madrid. At 1,000 square meters in size, holding 4,500 references of wines, and employing 20 people, it was always a fair if not terribly insightful statement. The claim is that they were unable to renegotiate their rent to favorable conditions in Madrid’s swanky […]
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