Tales of a Useless Marketing Manager (Free subscription) | yesterday
It's great to see how the industry is finally giving to the spanish wines the right level of attention. http://elmundovino.elmundo.es/elmundovino/noticia.html'vi_seccion=1&vs_fecha=200911&vs_noticia=1257766922
Tinto y Blanco (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
There was a little pile of foam wine mailers in my office when I got back from the US, a couple of bottles from Mouth Majura was stashed away at the bottom. Complete with a hand written note (I haven't had one of those in years!) from Frank, the winemaker. I've had a couple of bottles of this wine, of various vintages, over the years and I've always been impressed. But this is taking CanberraTempranillo...
Tinto y Blanco (Free subscription) | yesterday
This is a new one from Ce Soir, part of a range of wines from Ribera del Duero. One of the older bodegas in the region making very smart wines. Well worth seeking out. There is a dollop of Cabernet in here is well, which is quite typical and traditional for the region...I'm not usually a fan, but there is always an exception to the rule.
On the Wine Trail in Italy (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Bordeaux is in the tanks, Australian wines are on the decline. Elite California wines are having an identity crisis, and Spanish wines suffer from not having a large enough base. Argentina is emerging because of their affordable and drinkable wines. So Italy, where does that leave you? I get a call from a restaurateur. He wants me to come to his restaurant to taste wines and meet a winemaker. For years...
Another Food Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
They were handing out flyers in the Havana street, which seems rather a capitalist thing to do, and the prices looked good and the food tempting. The place was only a block away, called Bodegas. I’m told the name refers to a Spanish wine store, or to a small Hispanic grocery story with a wine-shop. [...]
Gerry Dawes's Spain: An Insider's Guide to Spanish... (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
* * * * * What does Dubai have to do with Spain and especially Spanish wine or food, including the upcoming W ineFuture-Rioja 2009 conference whose (recently "resigned") Director is Pancho Campo, President (recently "resigned') of the Wine Academy, the official organizer of the event? And what does all this have to do with Pancho Campo, Robert M. Parker, Jr., Jancis Robinson, Kevin Zraly,...
Gerry Dawes's Spain: An Insider's Guide to Spanish... (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
* * * * * “I found him (Robert M. Parker, Jr., the world’s most powerful wine critic) genial, even as his opinions horrified me, especially his dismissal of terroir as an elaborate European marketing hoax. . . " "Robert Parker (says Gerry Dawes) . . . has turned a wine world of independent winemakers making terroir -based wines that were identifiable by their origins, into a consultants’,...
Off The Presses (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
I know what you're saying. "You're what wine? Drink a beer , stupid!" Yes, beer is the go-to alcoholic beverage when simple, humble rice and beans is the meal at hand. But, somehow, no beer as ever hit the spot for me like this unprepossessing, mass market Spanish wine—Marques de la Villa Malvasia from the Toro region. I discovered the wine by accident years ago. Most likely, I had...
Celebrate Wine (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
© Rivard Mercury News had a feature recently on the growing popularity of wines from Spain's historic Toro region. Vines have been planted in Toro, about 100 miles northwest of Madrid, for hundreds of years and winemaking has been documented since the 1st century B.C. But the region was recognized as a Denominación de Origen only in 1987. The primary grape is a local version of tempranillo...
Good Stuff NW (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
There are few regions in the world that are as up on carbohydrates as the Mediterranean. But look what it's got to work with: rice, pasta, couscous. Could it get any easier? Writer Jeff Koehler has spent his career writing about the foods of that part of the world and his new book titled, simply enough, Rice Pasta Couscous is as much a travelogue about the artisans he meets and cooks with as it is...
kalebeul (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Don't believe the wine pundits.
happyrobot (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Pouring Wine This past Friday night, a co-worker invited me to come pour with them at the Wine Spectator Grand Tasting . It's the magazine's annual big-to-do about wine and attracts the majority of the stars of the wine world. I've done the event a few times already and learned that the trick is that you want to get there early and hit up the good tables before the public is let in - you basically...
Grape Sense - A Glass Half Full (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
My latest newspaper column focused on Spain's great tempranillo grape. I also have some commment in that column from Donna Lattzanio, who operates the Village Bottle Shop in West Lafayette on the bypass. Donna has been to Spain, visited the wine regions, and even dined with Spanish wine icon Miguel Torres Sr. Miguel Torres would be to Spain what the Rothchild name is to France or Mondavi to the United...
metrocurean (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
The Spanish-flavored Estadio will open next year on 14th Street NW. I may never leave my neighborhood again. Next spring/summer, Proof owner Mark Kuller and his team plan to open Estadio , a Spanish restaurant, at 1520 14th St. NW, the space recently vacated by Garden District's indoor plant shop. Estadio will join the newly opened Birch & Barley and Masa 14 , as well as my current neighborhood...
ERE Blog Central | ERE Blog Network (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
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