by winepleasures | Jul 14, 2012 | Wine Tours
Close to the Mediterranean Sea and surrounded by mountains and vineyards, the village of Bellvei bears the name of “the beautiful neighbor” if translated from Catalan. Neighbor to what? We went exploring. Our visit begins in the Cellers Avgvstvs (mind the spelling:...
by winepleasures | Jan 2, 2012 | Wineries Review, Wine Tours
It’s a place where you get 300 days of sun a year and where winemaking dates back to the time of the Roman’s in 123 B.C. It’s the Island of Mallorca, an 8-hour ferry ride from Barcelona or Valencia. It was here in 1856 that now one of the largest wineries on the...
by winepleasures | Oct 6, 2011 | Wine Tours, Wineries Review
After visiting Raventos i Blanc in the heart of Sant Sadurni D’Anoia, the thing that continually comes to mind is absolute opulence and attention to detail. When you arrive at the entrance to their property, you drive through row after row of their beautifully...
by winepleasures | Sep 30, 2011 | Wineries Review, Wine Tours
After a 15k bike ride from the Wine Pleasures Estate in the high Penedes Mountains, the first thing I needed to do when we arrived at Rovellats winery was to use ‘el bano’. Turns out, this wasn’t just a ‘down the hall, to the right’ sort of bathroom tour; I was led...
by winepleasures | Sep 27, 2011 | Wine Tours, Wineries Review
As I sipped my glass of 2007 Brute Nature Reserve and reached for a second piece of coca, the traditional cream and pine-nut pastry made in this region of Spain, Mrs. Ferret explained to me just what made Ferret Guasch’s Cavas different from the rest. Quality,...