Ricardo's Blog

Around and About in Valencia ( Where to Eat and Drink.)   The summer holidays are over, the gota fria is predicted before the weekend converting Valencia from  Summer to Autumn overnight but, events around the city have started again. For instance Valencia celebrated the Oktoberfest this week in the dry river bed with thousands enjoying steins of beer in the September sun.   Casa Montaña is a

Where to eat around Valencia(1).   Valencia is a beautiful city and once you learn to avoid the tourist traps and chain eateries around the centre you soon start to find wine bars, tapas bars and good restaurants serving authentic Valencian and modern style food at very reasonable prices. This then is the first in a new strand of blogs aimed at finding good places to eat in and around Valencia

DO Rueda Comes To Valencia!   Last night, 7 June saw DO Rueda sweep into Valencia to present their wines at the Valencia Palace Hotel. Last time the DO was here was April 2007 and was one of my first invitations from Verema to attend a major tasting. This time the motive was the 30th anniversary of the DO but who needs an excuse to taste these excellent white wines? Also by invitation of Verema

¨Primeras Marcas¨ and Verema Host a Tasting in Valencia.   10 May saw a tasting in the Hospes Palau De La Mar Hotel in Valencia organised jointly by Verema and ¨Primeras Marcas¨ the Barcelona based distributors with a catalogue to match the name. The tasting was primarily organised for professionals in the wine and restaurant trade and was much more ¨organised¨ than some I have reported on