by winepleasures | Oct 11, 2010 | Wine Tours, Wine Conference
The organic winery of Domaine De Soulié is named after winemaker Remy Soulie, sounding loosely like soleil, which of course means sun in French. Aptly named as Remy, who, despite not speaking a scrap of English or Spanish, had us all in fits of laughter from the...
by winepleasures | Oct 8, 2010 | Wine Tours
The Montau de Sadumí winery is my idea of heaven; the rustic farmhouse-like arches and dark cellars greet us along with Xavier, one of the family owners. This is Cava central and we purvey historic cast iron bottling machines and step through fifteen-century barn...
by winepleasures | Oct 6, 2010 | Wine Conference
Marcy Gordon, travel marketing guru and founder of Come For The Wine (a blog “all about Wine, Food, Travel and everything else in the Universe”), believes the key to a successful wine experience is to make it personal. A strong advocate of Twitter, she...
by winepleasures | Oct 3, 2010 | Wine Tours
The old and hooked, craggy branches of rows upon rows of vines stretch as far as the eye can see under the late September sun, ready to be harvested. The vineyards of La Baltana Vella are the setting for the grape harvest, which commences in late August, and the sun...
by winepleasures | Sep 29, 2010 | Wine Tours
My wine tasting knowledge was happily expanded this weekend at the 30th Mostra de Vins i Caves de Catalunya which was part of the Barcelona Merce ’10 festival. Lines of quaint white marquees facing the harbour (in the old part of town) greeted us after a hike...