Ribeira Sacra: Where Godello and Mencía are Bound for Glory Wine News (Fall October 2009)

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Ribeira Sacra: Where Godello and Mencía are Bound for Glory

Ribeira Sacra:  Just the Tasting Notes with Photographs

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Slide Show on Ribera Sacra 

 

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Gerry Dawes can be reached at gerrydawes@aol.com.
About the author

Gerry Dawes was awarded Spain's prestigious Premio Nacional de Gastronomía (National Gastronomy Award) in 2003. He writes and speaks frequently on Spanish wine and gastronomy and leads gastronomy, wine and cultural tours to Spain. He was a finalist for the 2001 James Beard Foundation's Journalism Award for Best Magazine Writing on Wine.

Mr. Dawes is currently working on a reality television

series on wine, gastronomy, culture and travel in Spain.

Experience Spain With Gerry Dawes: Culinary Trips to Spain & Travel Consulting on Spain

Gerry Dawes can be reached at gerrydawes@aol.com; Alternate e-mail (use only if your e-mail to AOL is rejected): gerrydawes@gmail.com

Spain’s Food & Wine Fairs: A Perpetual Feast

Palacio de Congresos in Valencia, Scene of Vino Elite


Tetsuya Wakuda at Madrid Fusión


Ferran Ádria at Alimentaria's BCN Vanguardia

Spain’s Food & Wine Fairs: A Perpetual Feast

by Gerry Dawes
All photographs copyright 2008 by Gerry Dawes (Not to be used without permission gerrydawes@aol.com)

Spanish food and wine fairs, wine trade fairs, promotional events and gastronomic conferences can keep dedicated Spanish wine professionals, foodies and aficionados alike busy all year round, as I found out over the course of 2007, when I made a half dozen ten trips to Spain, many of them connected two and three deep to Spanish wine events. Spain now has thousands of wineries and it takes a lot of tastings to bring all that wine to the attention of the press, importers and consumers.

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Three-star Michelin Chefs Santi Santamaria, Ferran Ádria, Paul Bocuse and Juan Mari Arzak

at the Salón Internacional de Gourmets in Madrid

Vinoble: Tasting in the former Mezquita of the Alcazar in Jerez de la Frontera