Ricardo's Blog

Last May saw an opportunity to get some education under my belt, not motivated by wine for its own sake nor the location, Vera de Estenas, but rather more because I have always instinctively felt corks are best for wine bottles.....

[caption id="attachment_1312" align="alignleft" width="116" caption="Young Tasters at Vera de Estenas."][/caption]   The past weekend saw European Wine Tourism Day and in Utiel-Requena this was marked by a number of events both in the old centre of Requena where visitors could enjoy a glass of wine and a tapa ( not actually a local tradition) in the castle square.  On the Sunday visitors to

[caption id="attachment_1126" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Figatells Lomo and Salcichon."][/caption]   Nearly two years of blogging and the land-mark 100th blog has been reached! The last couple of years are full of happy memories, almost all of it centred on the world of wine and food. It seems to me that I am not the only one to think that it is a world full of surprises and huge

[caption id="attachment_931" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Inma Amo, Valencian Artist."][/caption] May  got off to a slow start, and  with  visitors coming to stay it seemed there may not be much to report on! However in Valencia nothing is ever quiet for very long and a quick flurry of activity in the second half of the month put things back in order! Bodegas Vicente Gandia have been

The Fira de Vi de Falset is held in the Old Castle above  the town, with its fantastic views towards the mountains which surround the town at a distance and the vineyards of DO Monsant and DO Priorat.  A gentle lie in after our late night in Capçanes and almuerzo in a local bar had us ready to start a marathon tasting which began at around 12am and finished at 10pm with a generous lunch break in

It seems strange to go wine-tasting at midnight but straight from the tasting in Porrera we made our way to the nearby village of Capçanes to the Cooperative where it seemed the whole village had gathered! [caption id="attachment_878" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="Celler de Capçanes."][/caption] Founded in 1933 by five families, the Bodega came to  notice in 1995 when they produced a

Given that there were no wine fairs in Valencia over the weekend and that a series of co-incidental offers made a visit to Cataluña and the Falset Wine Fair a real possibility a group of Vilamarxant´s Wine Club decided to take the plunge, drive 350 km North towards Tarragona and the river Ebro to visit the fair which celebrates the wines of DO Priorat and DO Monsant. I freely admit to knowing