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Iberian Links Around the Web: Wine Tourism Winners; Spanish Marketing; Great Newsletters
Albeit a little delayed, we’ve finally put together a list of links worthy of your attention. And as always, please never hesitate to send news our way. We love to spread juicy Iberian wine and food gossip whenever possible. Best of Iberian Win...
Os Misterios de Lisboa: A Video on What Tourists Should Experience in Lisbon
Although we have written over a dozen articles on what you should experience in Lisbon, we have yet to focus on its monuments. As an Iberian wine and food focused website, whenever we visit a location, our palates tend to sway towards homemade recipe...
Wine in Moderation: Catavino Formally Adopts an Educational Stance on Wine Consumption
Editor’s note: As many of you know, Catavino strives to be an educational wine website, by focusing on wine through the context of life. We enjoy wine among family, with food, in times of joy, in times of pain, during births and deaths, and eve...
Rick Fisher: New American Based Writer for Catavino
The passions of Spain’s past, present, and future run through my veins as sure as great juice flows daily from wine casks around the country. My grandfather was born in Sarrià, a small barrio in the northwestern part of Barcelona, in December 1909...
A Portuguese Thanksgiving Complete with Port Cranberry Sauce
For the past two years, I haven’t been able to return home for Thanksgiving. It was difficult enough that I couldn’t share the experience with my family, but adding to my despair, Thanksgiving doesn’t exist in Portugal. Well, that is ...
Harvesting in the Priorat: Fermentation II, Pigeage, ‘Lees’, and Monitoring Fermentations
A friend of ours Raymond Magourty (Raymondo) is working the 2009 harvest in Priorat, Catalunya for Celler Mas Doix, a prestigious wine producer located in the village of Poboleda whose Parker Points have elevated it in popularity. With his background...
