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The Wine Gang celebrate their 1 year anniversary this month.
If you are not familiar of The Wine Gang (TWG), it is 5 of the UK’s most influential wine writers and communicators – Tim Atkin, Olly Smith, Tom Cannavan, Joanna Simon & Anthony Rose, who collaborate to put together a monthly newsletter [...]
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I’m starting to come across more and more travel blogs writing about visits to La Rioja.
This is a great sign that this lovely region is finally making waves in a more international travel arena. So far international visitors to the region are relatively small, especially compared to some other well known [...]
Well, one of the top ones anyway.
According to, what is probably a rather unscientific study intended solely to get people like me to write about it, TripAdvisor has just put out a rather simplistic press release about the “Top 10 Wine Destinations”.
In at number 6 you’ll find this (is Inbibation even a word?):
6. Spanish Inbibation: [...]
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 [...]
