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 […]
Every month I send out a simple newsletter to the members of Maestrazgo Wine Club; a small group of wine-lovers who meet once a week to explore the world of wine together in a small tasting room in Barcelona. From October onwards, I will start to share this newsletter here as well! For more information […]
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 […]