Tag: Tempranillo

Wine Review

Wine Review: Dominio de Atauta 2014

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DO Ribera del Duero is an increasingly interesting place to discover wine. Like many Spanish wine regions, it seems to be coming into a phase of maturity, where the two worlds of tradition and modernity have resolved their differences and styles are starting to settle, with interesting projects splintering off, often falling somewhere between the […]

Barcelona Wine Tasting

Barcelona Wine Tasting: A Tale of Tempranillo

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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 […]