I’m very excited to see new collaborations for Catavino to put great wines in the hands of wine drinkers
Petalos 2008 tasted at home (with some beef stronganoff from Cook! if you need to know) Pétalos Del Bierzo 2008 produced by Descendientes de J. Palacios in Bierzo, Note: A wine of its own. I don’t know of many I could compare in terms not only of the taste and experience, but the story and [...]
Spanish wines have been on the UK shopping lists for some years, so you might expect that a tasting of 60 Spanish wines, selected by the buyers from the UK’s 10 main supermarket and high street retailers, would be a good indication of the state of the category. Well, maybe. First, a statistic. Of the [...]
I bought this wine as part of a mixed case from Flagship Wines. I asked them to send me “something different” and this was one of their interesting choices – right on the money. It cost just over £10, so a fair amount for proper experimentation, and its main grape is Tintilla de Rota which [...]
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