Recent Posts Tagged With 'grape varieties'

• Stockholm to host 5th annual International Tempranillo Competition

  Posted on Thursday May 21st, 2009 at 08:58 in events, grape varieties

  The international competition for Tempranillo wines will be held May 26 to 29 in Stockholm. This competition is limited to wines made from the Tempranillo variety and organizers expect to have about 500 wines participating.Most of the participants ar...

• Indigenous grapes of Catalunya and the quest for individuality

  Posted on Monday June 9th, 2008 at 05:43 in torres, wineries, grape varieties

  In the continuing quest of winemakers to make wines that are distinctive from all the rest, bodegas here in Catalunya have been making greater efforts to restore indigenous grape varieties to commercial use. The thinking is that if the raw material i...

• White tempranillo: mutation or technique?

  Posted on Tuesday May 27th, 2008 at 02:28 in wineries, grape varieties

  I had recently seen a press release for the Pago del Vicario winery on the release of their second vintage of a White Tempranillo wine. This press release brought to mind the news last year from La Rioja D.O.C. that one of the varieties now approved...