Highlights: Bodegas y Viñedos Ponce Clos Lojen Bobal 2020 Manchuela, Spain
Juan Antonio Ponce gained experience working for Telmo Rodríguez before setting up his own project at the young age of
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Spain
Blending Sal da Terra 2020
So it’s time to blend the 2020 vintage of Sal da Terra Albariño, made by Eulogio Pomares from two vineyard
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Bodegas Tradicion: visiting one of the best Sherry producers of all
Website: Bodegas Tradicion There are a number of threads to the story of sherry today. We have big sherry: the
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Bodegas Arautava, Tenerife: wines marked by Spanish and Portuguese invaders, volcanic eruptions and a vine training system more crazy than Colares
Volcanic soils, the idiosyncratic cordón trenzado system and the mighty Atlantic make for a maverick terroir on the Island of
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Montebaco: one of the most exciting producers in Ribera del Duero
Website: https://clubdevinos.tienda/ Montebaco is located between two of the most famous towns in the region: Valbuena de Duero and Pesquera
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The wines of Tantaka: Txakoli with a difference
This is Txakoli – the famous Basque wine – with a difference. Most often an ephemeral, spritzy thirst quencher, here
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Remebering Alejandro Fernández, whose Tinto Pesquera wines helped make the reputation of Spain’s Ribera del Duero region
This weekend, Alejandro Fernandez, the founder of Pesquera, died aged 88. He was an important figure in establishing Ribera del
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Visiting Pintia: Vega Sicilia’s winery in Toro, Spain
In the mid 1990s the Álvarez family, owners of the famous Vega Sicilia winery in Spain’s Ribera del Duero, were
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Highlights: Bodegas Albamar Fusco Mencia 2018, Ribeira Sacra, Spain
Xurxo Alba’s family has been farming and making Albariño in Rïas Baixas O Salnés region, near the Atlantic Ocean, for
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An Albariño study: four top wines
I tried these four excellent examples of Albariño with Ben Llewelyn of Carte Blanche, who is their importer. Saras Albariño
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