Tag Archives: Parés Baltà

Parés Baltà open for “extreme wine tourism”

By winepleasures | Published: July 16, 2009
Second part of a Wine Pleasures winery visit programme I was lucky enough to witness.  Our visit to Parés Baltà was the complete antithesis to Rimarts. For starters, Parés Baltà is an older (established in 1790), much bigger winery with a staff of over fifty and five estates. Rather than wandering around the depths of the [...]
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Rimarts. Degorge “en directo” for wine tourists

By winepleasures | Published: July 11, 2009
Wine Pleasures – wine tasting tours. Today we were joined by two Canadians to visit a couple of wineries, Rimarts and Pares Balta. Lois, a sommelier for Nyood Restaurant and Kultura Social, and her partner Joel were touring Spain and contacted Wine Pleasures to organise a one day winery visit programme to experience some superior Spanish [...]
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Vijazz, Vilafranca del Penedès wine & jazz festival

By winepleasures | Published: July 6, 2009
The Vilafranca jazz festival, Vijazz, is in its third year and has gone from strength to strength. This year the organisers are expecting 45,000 people to descend on Vilafranca to take advantage of this free festival to see performers that would normally be charging €50 a ticket.  We arrived in the square in Vilafranca and were [...]
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