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 [...]
I hadn’t planned another post quite so soon (after all, I wouldn’t want to spoil you and have you expect me to post THAT regularly) but I awoke to some wonderful news which I thought I would share.
Julia Harding MW, who is the main contributor to JancisRobinson.com other than Jancis herself, just wrote an interesting [...]
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Hope you all had a Merry Christmas, and I wish everyone a great Hogmanay
I thought I’d get at least one brief post in over the holidays.
I first need to congratulate Caroline, of Caroline’s Miscellany, for winning the case of 6 bottles of Dinastia Vivanco Crianza to help make a great vinous start to [...]
I had meant to finally get around to starting to write up my many wonderful visits to some of the top Rioja wineries tonight, but unfortunately I started with the upload of photos and I had a bit of a problem with Flickr (in other words it crashed AFTER I had done all the work [...]
One of the wonderful things about working wth the family who established Dinastia Vivanco is that there is no such thing as a ‘normal’ day. One day I’m off tasting wines with folks (like I did recently for the nice people of the Stroud Wine Society, and a wonderful lunch at Carden Park with Cheshire [...]
