Barcelona By The Glass

Barcelona by the Glass: Vila Viniteca

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Established: 1932 (Shop opened in 1993) Style of establishment: Wine Shop and Distributor Price by the glass – NA Price by the bottle – €5 to €15,000 Address – 7 Carrer Agullers, Barcelona, 08003 Phone number – 937 777 017 Opening Hours – Monday to Friday from 8:30am to 8:30pm Saturday from 8:30am to 5pm […]

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Special moments and special bottles; Sassicaia 2001

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I still remember my first real moment of joy with wine, the feeling of this enormous world opening in front of me, the history, the culture and the sheer complexity and scope of it all. I’ve had this same feeling since, but the first experience I had of it was in a classroom on an […]

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It’s good to be back

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My poor website. It’s been a good three weeks since I wrote anything of note, mainly due to the fact that my last three weeks have seen me turn into a sort of hunch-backed troglodyte whose main goal was to memorize the differences between the various sub-regions of Champagne, Lambrusco clones and the importance of […]

Thoughts on wine

Thoughts on: Modern Wine Culture

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‘Wine Culture’ is a pretty difficult thing to define, especially in our constantly changing, modern, technology-driven world. When we think of wine culture, we tend to romanticize a little and think about a family somewhere, probably in Southern Europe, sharing a bottle or two of good wine over a table heavily laden with stunning fresh […]