One of my goals on this blog is to get you excited about the possibility of visiting Rioja, not just drinking it.
Few people know where Rioja is beyond the fact that it is in Spain. Being a red wine, and partly because most of those who have visited Spain have been to the Mediterranean coast [...]
Quite a title, but one that was recently bestowed upon the Dinastia Vivanco Foundation.
If you are not involved in the publishing business, or even if you are but not in Food & Wine publishing, then you may not have heard of the Gourmand Awards [shockingly bad site I'm afraid, but they are publishers you know!].
Every [...]
Here is a photo of what you can expect if you come looking for vineyards in Rioja about this time of year. Not pretty, unless you enjoy gnarly old vines, but they promise so much!
One of the greatest developments of the Web 2.0 age (when blogs and other interactive technologies really became established) is that information is no longer hoarded, but shared and added to. Whereas archives of great writing and research used to be hoarded in musty vaults on the slim chance someone would pay to reuse it, [...]
Welcome to my new blog all about Rioja - Thirst for Rioja. It is about wine, travel, food, tourism, history, geography, and anything else that comes up.
I work for a number of wineries in Rioja, all producing amazing wines, but I will not be bombarding you with sales information (I promise) but I do look [...]
