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Elation and Post EWBC 2008 Depression
Sitting in front of the computer preparing to sum up my experience at the European Wine Blogger Conference, I literally feel speechless. Are there words for my emotions, my feeling of warmth and excit...
Pre-Conference Butterflies and a Thank You
‘Twas the night before Conference, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a computer mouse; The nametags were hung by their lanyards with care, In hopes they’d be...
Wine Tourism in Sherry Country and a Lesson from Portugal
Two weeks ago, after a very relaxing holiday in Galicia, we chose to make our way home to Jerez via Portugal, stopping off for two nights in Oporto on the way. I’ve been to where they make Mad...
Leitão Assado da Bairrada with Tinto Espumante: A Truly Sensory Experience
Two weeks ago, my boyfriend and I decided to take a weekend holiday up North to Guimarães, though each of us seemed to have different intentions for going. I wanted to visit all the wineries of Minho...
Wine, Books, Conferences, and the 2008 Vintage
It’s crunch time here at the Spanish office of the European Wine Bloggers Conference. Every day a new issue, a new question, and the realization that we forgot to do something! That combined wi...
A Series of Wine Thoughts From My Time in Minnesota
Ok, jetlag is done, culture shock is mitigated, and my life is starting to get back to its crazy usual self. I’ve inoculated my system with some fresh Iberian wines and assorted tapas. So what h...
Grape Profile Verdil: A Highly Misunderstood Indigineous Grape of Valencia
Editor’s Note: If you remember, a little while back, Ryan reviewed the book “Valencia, Land of Wine“, written by Joan C. Martin and translated and edited by John Maher. While, in Val...
Eric Solomon, Catavino, Twitter and You
Today, we have an announcement. This Thursday, if the planets align and Twitter stays live for more then 10 minutes, we’ll be tasting wines with the prestigious wine importer, Eric Solomon of ...
Wine Blogging Wednesday #47: “S” Stands for “Spanish Sherry”
Gabriella fondly remembers when she was a child, sitting in front of the TV listening to Cookie Monster teach the alphabet, and on this particular day, words that started with the letter “S̶...
Summer Setup at Catavino
On the Train to Valencia! As I write, we are heading down south to the warm, sunny beaches of Valencia. We’ll be visiting with a few key people from the wine tourism industry along with a new cl...
Adegga.com A Social wine site that is headed in the right direction
You can’t do it all at once. Life is a series of small steps. And if you believe that any project that kicks off today will have success tomorrow, well, be prepared for disappointment. This is m...
10 Commandments of Winery Blogging!
Ideally, we try to limit our posts to the subject of Iberian wine. That said, our small consulting company has gained traction over the past year, giving us hope that it will continue to develop and e...
Oz Clarke’s Rant with Catavino
In January, for those of you who weren’t following our play by play of the II International Conference on Climate and Wine, Catavino spent three days cornering wine celebrities, in order to get ...
Iberian Links Around the Web - or the Decanter Commentary
Welcome to another addition of Iberian Links around the web! Despite Labor Day being celebrated yesterday throughout the EU, in addition to family and friends arriving from both London and Madrid, we ...
Iberian Links from around the Web
To start off our Friday links, I’d like to make a formal apology to a tiny bodega making incredible wine in Rioja. Although we had mentioned Bodegas Arranz-Argote in our Rioja report, we failed ...
2005 Quinta do Vale Meão - Douro, Portugal
Last night was one of the first evenings, in quite some time, that we took a big break away from drinking La Rioja wines. Sigh…it felt magical to take a massive step to the right and look adorin...
What is the Flavor of Rioja?
When we first decided to commit two months to La Rioja wine, I had a lot of concerns. First, I didn’t know how we were going to cover the subject in such a short amount of time with important events...
Iberian Wine Wiki - Well Sort of
Birth Year Wines
Freixenet - Money Wasted or Money Well Spent?
A few days ago, there was a post on the wine blog, Tempranillo, pointing me to the new Martin Scorsese movie commissioned by Freixnet, the largest Cava producer in Spain, to promote their wine Carta N...
Port – Uncovering this Hidden Treasure in the Algarve
Editor’s Note: Our newest contribution is from Eddie and Moses, founders of the recently created blog, The Algarve Buzz. If you haven’t had a chance to peruse their blog, I highly suggest...
Iberian Links around the Web
Thanksgiving has now come and gone. The delicious smell of garlic mashed potatoes drifting throughout the house has been replaced with Turkey sandwiches. The screeches of playful children running glee...
Thanksgiving in Terrassa, Spain
Being an ex-pat in Spain, we don’t have the luxury of a Thursday off to celebrate Turkey Day. We still wake up early, go to work, and have no contact with family other than a late afternoon phon...
La Cata de los Lacres 2008
Editors Note:La Cata de Los Lacres is an annual event put on by Todovino. Todovino is both a wine club and the publisher of la Guía (Spanish Only), a popular annual wine guide covering the gamut of S...
Marketing in a Web 2.0 world and the power of Google
We get a lot of wine samples, being that we are the only English speaking site, that I know of, covering Spanish and Portuguese wine. At times, it’s daunting to judge a wine, or winery, by our...
Bodega Profile - Quinta do Encontro - DOC Bairrada
The region of Bairrada occupies no more than 10,000 hectares, fractioned off by cooperatives and small producers like Quinta do Encontro. Although the region has been producing wine since the 10th ...
Old Wine Media - Poo Pooing New Wine Tools?
Decanter published this story last month about the relatively new wine website Snooth. “A new online wine service hopes to become the world’s busiest cyber wine recommendations site by c...
Announcing Wine Blog Wednesday 38 – Portuguese Table Wines with Caveats!
First off, we would like to thank Dr. Vino for hosting the last Wine Blog Wednesday, #37, on indigenous grapes. As our post highlighted, we loved the topic both because of our convenient location in...
Vinus TV - Spanish Wine entering the Web 2.0
A few days ago, we found a Spanish wine video site called, Vinus, a new start up covering Spanish wine, history and culture in a very hip and trendy way. Founded in the beginning of August, it has a...
Can White Wines Age?
A few days ago, we shared a fabulous wine and gourmet food shop for you to visit in Lisbon; however, what I failed to include in our article were the wines we tasted during our visit. Drat! I could ...