December 9, 2009 – 2:09 pm
If you are quick, and I mean really quick, you can still catch a free tasting of Rioja wine AND Rioja food (in the form of some lovely tapas from the in-house expert) at the National Geographic store on Regents Street.
For this week only the Rioja Government (not Rioja wines alone this time) is sponsoring [...]
Here area selection of my photos from Tapas Fantasticas London 2009. A proper round up coming soon.
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It must be! This is the second year running that we have had the most fabulous weather for Tapas Fantasticas. The predictions for rain throughout the day could not have been more wrong – we had blistering sun. We did, however, have a torrential downpour as soon as the event was over.
The conclusion is inescapabale [...]
Those who’ve been following this blog for a while know I attended last year’s inaugural Tapas Fantasticas event in Brick Lane, London. It was an amazing event. The weather was great, the food was wonderful, and the wine was Rioja … and so fabulous!
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This week I attended The Drinks Business‘ Rioja Forum, organised in conjunction with Wines from Rioja, to discuss the motion: “Should Tempranillo remain the dominant grape?”
In many ways, it wasn’t a discussion as much as a series of comments around the theme of how Rioja should present itself to the world, and more importantly, how [...]
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