by winepleasures | Oct 12, 2014 | Wine Tours, 50 Great Cavas
I’ve tasted wine in a vineyard. I’ve sipped and slurped in many a dull function room. I’ve sampled wines in rustic cellars, on metal gang ways high above the fermentation tanks, next to barrels in quite a few cobweb-filled cellars. I’ve drunk...
by winepleasures | Oct 2, 2014 | Wine Tours, 50 Great Cavas
A Dream Team of 6 influential writers and photographers will soon be descending on the Penedès wine region to discover some of the 50 Great Cavas 2014. They will be visiting wineries, matching cavas with local delicacies such as Fideua, Calçotada, Xató del...
by winepleasures | May 27, 2014 | 50 Great Cavas
An Art Nouveau Wine Cathedral. 1920 marks the first year of harvest that filled Vinícola de Nulles’ cellars. Today, the winery exports approximately 200,000 bottles of cava and 100,000 bottles of wine worldwide under the brand name Adernats. Lovers of art and...
by winepleasures | Jan 26, 2014 | Wine Workshops
With the 11th edition of the Wine Pleasures Workshop Buyer meets IBERIAN Cellar around the corner, we thought we would point out some interesting facts from Portugal & Spain: The land of fly droppings, dog strangler and the little red bastard are all names of...
by winepleasures | Jul 25, 2013 | Wine Tours
On Saturday 20th July 2013, the XI Festival de Musica a les Vinyes, Subirats (Penedès Barcelona) opened with the music of the Argentinian quartet Rocio Faks and the guest saxophonist and flautist Gorka Benitez. The captivating voice of Rocio Faks resonated powerfully...