by winepleasures | May 30, 2013 | Wine Tours, 50 Great Cavas
As Wine Pleasures embarks on the search for 50 Geat Cavas of 2013 the experience would not be the same without getting a team of influential bloggers and traditional media to write about all things sparkling in the Catalonian wine region! In October this year a small...
by winepleasures | May 24, 2013 | 50 Great Cavas, Wine Tours
As they say first impressions can only be made once well the creative sophistication of Pere Ventura could be felt immediately as I walked over the immaculate grass path and in through the large archway door. A reasonably young winery for the region established in...
by winepleasures | Jan 25, 2013 | Wine Tours
Barcelona’s attractions are just too many to be described in a few words; from Catalan food to brilliant architecture, Barcelona attracts thousands of visitors every year without fail. There are many oenophiles around the world that know that Barcelona is one of the...
by winepleasures | Oct 3, 2012 | Wine Tours, 50 Great Cavas
Today the Penedes region is Spain’s proud leader in the production of organic wine, but a bit more than thirty years ago words like “ecological” or “organic” had not much to do with Spanish wine. That was before the Albet i Noya family got into the business. In the...
by winepleasures | Mar 26, 2012 | Wineries Review, Wine Tours
We arrived, on a warm Saturday morning, at Finca Valldosera´s sun-drenched estate, tucked amidst its many vineyards and expansive pine forest of the low-to-middle Penedes. Immediately, we piled into a four-wheel drive vehicle and climbed to the top of a nearby peak to...