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Cava & Penedès Bike Tour Delights IOWA Family & Friends
When I arrived at the Wine Pleaures Estate for the 25k-Mighty Oak Wine Country Bike Tour, I didn’t know what to expect. It was a surprise to find that my fellow mountain bikers were from Iowa, the U.S. state home to my mother´s entire family. A small world indeed! Andrea and Bryan McGinness were in Spain [...]
Topic: Wine Tours | Also tagged bike, catalunya, Cava, cycle, La LLacuna, llopart, mascaró, spain, spanish wine, tourism, wine, winestyles | 1 Comment
Cava Rimarts Brilliant Start for a Spanish Wine Tasting Tour
Rimarts Cava is the first winery that Kim and I have ever had the opportunity to visit. And I don’t think that we could have started our wine tasting careers at a better spot in the world. Immediately upon entry, through the sliding glass doors, we were shown past the sleek and clean, modern reception [...]
Topic: Wine Tours | Also tagged Catalonia, Cava, enoturismo, spain, wine tasting tors, Wine Tourism, wine travel | Leave a comment
Barcelona’s Mostra de Vins i Caves de Catalunya
Topic: Wine Tours | Also tagged catalunya, caves, enoturismo, fiesta, INCAVI, mercè, tourism, travel, vins, wine | 2 Comments
A Tribute to the Spanish Summer Peach
Summer is the perfect time to snack on fresh fruit, but a question I rarely ask myself is where that snack comes from. At home, I try to get most of my produce from farmer’s markets, but in Spain I decided to go straight to the farm itself. The Olivella-Font Clara peach farm is located [...]
Topic: Wine Conference, Wine Tours | Also tagged caves guilera, cigró d'or, feliz massanas, joan font, lavern, mercat restaurant, olivella de font clara, oriol llavina, peaches, Penedès, spring lady peach, Subirats | Leave a comment
Mas Passamaner Rings Wedding Bells for Spanish Wine Lovers
Sunlight pours through the tall windows that bound the lobby of Mas Passamaner, where I’m sitting on one of the room’s oversized plush couches surrounded by sleek wicker accents. The manager offers café con leche as he explains that the five-star hotel served as a private home for most of the 20th century, until it [...]
Topic: Wine Conference, Wine Tours | Also tagged Cava, Joaquin Koerpin, michelin star, Penedès, Priorat, spain, tarragona, Terra Alta, weddings, wine | 2 Comments
Graphic Art Meets Spanish Wine at Ferré i Catasús
Upon arrival at Ferré i Catasús, it is difficult to tell whether the building is a winery or a modern art gallery. Surrounded by bright flowers, gleaming fountains, and rows of blooming grapevines, the Ferré i Catasús winery sits in the heart of the Penedès region of Spain, about an hour outside of Barcelona. The [...]
Topic: Wine Conference, Wine Tours | Also tagged 4gats, gaudi, graphic art, la granada, Penedès, picasso, spain, sumoll | Leave a comment
Wine Tasting Improves Student’s Spanish Fluency
This Friday Wine Pleasures in collaboration with SpanishinSitges will be leading a Cava Wine tasting for learners of Spanish as a Foreign Language. Employing the learning methodology “Teaching Through the Target Language” students get to kill two birds with one stone. On the one hand they get to improve the 4 Skills (Speaking, Listening, Reading [...]
Topic: Wine Tours | Also tagged ambrosía, Cava, clases de español, dibon, español para extranjeros, mascaró, nigrum, pinord, sitges, spanish as a foreign language | 1 Comment
Barcelona & Penedès Ring Wedding Bells for Norwegian Couples
Weddings are great sources of revenue for all the varying kinds of providers involved – wedding dress consultant/shop, florist, photographer, limousines, hotels, travel agent, and of course the reception venue which tends to be a restaurant. Most couples prefer to do the organising themselves particularly if they are to get married in their home town [...]
Topic: Wine Conference, Wine Tours | Also tagged boda, brudepikene, cal baly, can suriol, castell de Grabuac, Catalonia, Conca de Barberà, enoturismo, joan sardà, mas passamaner, Montsant, Penedès, Priorat, sonoma, spain, wedding planners, wine travel, winery weddings | 2 Comments
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