Nearly every European country with a long wine-making tradition produces at least a few sweet wines, some of which have survived the ages and are still considered to be some of the worlds greatest expressions. To this day some Tokaji wines from Hungary, Sauterne from the south of Bordeaux, Trockenbeerenauslese from Germany and others command […]
We’re back again with another weekly wine tasting, this time focusing on one of the worlds most famous, highly sought after and fickle grapes; Pinot Noir. What a wine made from Pinot Noir is meant to taste like is a highly debatable topic, although it is fair to say that the bench-mark region is certainly […]
This week with Maestrazgo Wine Club, we’re going to be looking at an appellation that is relatively new to Spain having been founded in 2003; Vino de Pago, quite simply’Estate wine’ or more correctly, ‘single-vineyard wines’. It was ostensibly introduced to create further diversity amongst the Spanish wine market and to celebrate top-quality individual estates, that […]
Coming up this week with Maestrazgo Wine Club is our tasting on the wines of Galicia, a region that has been producing wine for as long as anyone can remember but has at times been pigeon-holed due to its great success with the aromatic white wine made from Albariño, typically in Rias Baixas, which in […]
Last week we did our monthly international wine tasting with Maestrazgo Wine Club, this time heading to the beautiful island of Sicily, just off the southern tip of Italy. I’d been blown away a year before by an aged version of Nerello Mascalese by Calabretta, purchased at Monvinic store in Barcelona for 18 euros (for […]