The Battle for Wine and Love: or How I Saved the World from Parkerization by Alice Feiring
Reflections of a Wine Merchant: On a Lifetime in the Vineyards and Cellars of France and Italy by Neal I. Rosenthal
These are two of the most important books written about wine in the past decade. Neither may sell as many copies as the books of Robert Parker or Jancis Robinson, but both Feiring's and
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Special to verema.
Entrevista con Ferran Adrià, 27 de Junio, 2008
por Gerry Dawes
Gerry Dawes: En los ultimos 10 años que considerás que son tus contribuciones al mundo de la gastronómía mas importantes: en filosofía, téchnica, ideas etc. Y este mismo periodo como han cambiado o evolucionado tus ideas y filosofía y cuales han sido las influencias mas claves.
Ferran Adrià: Creo que en 1998, lo esencial de la
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Galicia's Terroir-Driven Wines
(Full-size copy of the article. Tasting notes below.)
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
Food Arts Over the Foaming Wave Article on Ferran Adriá
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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
To all my friends and readers at Verema.
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Text & Photographs by Gerry Dawes©2008
Immortalized in the Middle Ages in the French poem Chanson de Roland (whose legendary setting is in the hills above the Pyreneen village of Roncesvalles); its capital Pamplona made famous the world over in the 1920s by Ernest Hemingway in The Sun Also Rises; and again in the 1960s by James A. Michener in Iberia, beautiful, rugged and
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Text, Photos & Tasting Notesby Gerry Dawes
Slide Show: Spain's Surprising Terroir-Driven Reds: Slate-laced Glories
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Alice Feiring (pronounced “Firing”), in her new book, The Battle for Wine and
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Manzanilla at sunset on Bajo de Guía beach at Sanlúcar de Barrameda, my spiritual home.
"I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not. They are strangers in their birthplace, and the leafy lanes they have known from childhood or the populous streets in which
L'Escaleta, My Favorite Alta Cocina Restaurante in Spain
L'Escaleta's elegant dining room
Chef Kiko Moya
L'Escaleta
subida estación Norte 205, Cocentaina (near Alcoy).
L’Escaleta is a big surprise. In an off-the-beaten track town near Alcoy in Alicante province, Chefs Ramiro Redrado and cousin Kiko Moya, a combination of experience and youth, along with Ramiro's son, Alberto Redrado-
