If you love Garnacha and you live in Spain, you can consider yourself very lucky, as I don’t think there’s ever been a better time for this wonderful grape variety in the history of our industry here. Garnacha is the 3rd most planted red grape in Spain and increasingly is being seen as a very […]
Rioja is often described in terms of ‘traditional’ producers vs ‘modern’ producers, drawing a line between those who stick to the old-fashioned methods of gentle extractions, long macerations and extended periods of time in old American oak barrels, vs the more Ribera del Duero-esque wines, that favour more extraction and shorter maturation times in new […]
It seems odd to post about special bottles in back to back entries, but it just so happened that everything came together at once this month. Two years ago I bought two very special bottles of Rioja from my favourite Bodega in the region, La Rioja Alta. The wines are the 890 Gran Reserva range […]
Spain is a vast and diverse country when it comes to wine and like much of the world, has benefited greatly from improvements in viticultural sciences, wine-making technology and communications which has led to a revolution of style and quality over the last few decades. However, despite still being the 3rd largest producer of wine […]
Time to get ready for a particularly interesting tasting this week! We’re going to be looking at Tempranillo as a grape variety in it’s three most prestigous appellations across Spain; Toro, Ribera del Duero and Rioja. Tempranillo is Spain’s ‘noble’ grape and dominates quality wine-making to a quite considerable extent, particularly in wines available in […]