Ricardo's Blog

[caption id="attachment_1263" align="alignleft" width="106" caption="Bright Poster For This Years Fair!"][/caption] Well, the Gods are almost smiling on L´Alcúdia this year. Certainly the sun is shining on this 5 day long fair of food and wine even if the organisers have chosen to ignore the one piece of advice given last year. You really cannot call it a Gastronomy Fair and expect people to try

Last year I visited this fair for the first time and was very much pleased to discover two new and emerging bodegas, Vinessens and Carabibas as well as some good friends in Finca Collado and some Bodegas from Alicante and la Mancha I had not encountered before. The fair is a traditional agricultural event with lots of very expensive farming hardware, local commerce, car dealers as well as wine,

[caption id="attachment_1164" align="alignleft" width="87" caption="Poster for the Fair."][/caption] For the seven years I have lived here I have looked at the Serranos, a range of mountains that run inland from Sagunto and form one side of  the Turia valley. I can see these mountains clearly from my terrace and have often thought about crossing them to see what was on the other side. Actually I

I feel sorry for the people of L´Alcúdia because in two of the three years I have visited the feria it has poured with rain, coinciding with the Gota Fria! Nonetheless many visitors still attend this fair , one of the better small fairs with its wide range of gastronomy on show. And despite the weather the exhibitors also show huge enthusiasm for their products. The public enjoy the fair.