Laboratorio de Vinos en Enoteca d´Italia Dirigidos a amateurs y profesionales para descubrir, analizar y catar juntos importantes vinos y sus terroirs de procedencia, con encuentros temáticos sobre uvas autóctonas y Denominaciones de Origen.
LAB 1.0: IL VALPOLICELLA
JUEVES 12 MARZO h20,00 – Euro 26,00La variedad Corvina y sus hermanas pequeñas, Molinara y Rondinella, dan lugar a [...]
“I was a lawyer for 25 years; I’m different than everyone else in this room because I am not interested in the truth.”
So Ross Schwartz told the assembled group at the Symposium for Professional Wine Writers in Napa last week. Schwartz, formerly an entertainment lawyer based in Los Angeles, wrote the screenplay for the [...]
DONZELLACatado en febrero de 2009@@@@+
Can suriol nos llamo la atención y Donzella Chenin Blanc nuestra admiración. Siempre es gratificante que el vino que tenemos en copa perdure en el tiempo y sea hoy distinto al de mañana y la singularidad de este vino blanco de variedad francesa del Valle del Loira lo consigue.
El trabajo de [...]
SPIT: the French Paradox!
“The consumption of alcohol, and especially wine, is discouraged,” state new government guidelines. Where? France! Sacre bleu! The National Cancer Institute has a new brochure out that also discourages consumption of red meat, charcuterie and salt. [The Times of London]
SPIT: wine on the web
The French Parliament recently debated a bill that included [...]
Voting is now under way for the 2009 American Wine Blog awards! This blog has been nominated in two categories, best wine blog and best wine blog writing. Head on over to the Fermentation, check out all the blogs since it can be a good way to discover new ones, and then cast your vote! [...]
What can we call port-style, fortified wine made here in America? Thanks to your over thirty suggestions, we now have finalists!
Unfortunately, names with the letters “port” (or “porto”) are not legally allowed. I was thinking of suggesting “Corto” since it is a contraction of California Porto (and, in a double entendre, also the venue where [...]
While gesticulating fervently, Nicolas Joly addressed a packed room yesterday at the Return to Terroir event in New York City today. Although the tasting was going on in the next room, separated only by a thin curtain, the standing-room, rapt audience listened to Joly, a sort of evangelist for Biodynamics who makes wine at the [...]
Time for a review roundup! Simon & Schuster, the publisher of my book, A Year of Wine: Perfect Pairings, Great Buys and What to Sip for Each Season, submitted it to the Amazon Vine program. In this program, Amazon sends review copies to some of their customer reviewers who may review it on the product [...]
Álvaro Palacios
Vinos y trayectoria
El mismo día que se nos cruzaron en nuestro camino infinidad de vinos alemanes de la variedad que posiblemente seduzcan con más claridad a los paladares más exigentes, ese mismo día dejamos la tarde para otros vinazos lejos de las laderas de Rieslings pero sin abandonar parajes igualmente escarpados y difíciles pero [...]
Vinalia en Girona
Presentación de la añada 2007 de los Vinos Alemanes en Mas Marroch del Celler de Can Roca.
El pasado martes 23 de febrero Adictos a la Lujuria tuvo la oportunidad de sumergirse en rielings, una cata dividida en tres partes, con un denominador común la añada 2007 aunque afortunadamente no todo fue un infanticidio, [...]
