Ancestral Wine: When Natural Doesn't Need a Label
“Natural wine” has become such a common phrase that sometimes we no longer know what it means. Is it a wine without sulfites? Without filtration? Without human intervention? Or simply...
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Any industry usually has its terminology and wine is no different. My goal is to demystify this terminology and demystify the wine itself for you.
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Untranslatable words about wine
When Language Meets the Glass There are words that refuse to cross borders. They cling to their soil like old vines, absorbing centuries of climate, culture, and silence. And when...
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Connected Worlds
Minerality on both sides of the ocean: when the soils speak in the wine We often describe wines as mineral—flint, saline, volcanic, stony—but what does that really mean? As we...
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The Mission Grape, The Missionaries and The Ame...
The Mission Grape: The Vine That Crossed Oceans and Rooted itself in the Americas When we think of wine from the Americas, we often imagine modern names: Napa Valley, Mendoza,...
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One Hundred Years of Rioja
Rioja: The land that awakened the titans “ Before wine had a name, the land already had memory. ” This year, as Rioja celebrates the centenary of its Denominación de...
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The True Life of a Wine Importer
Between Glamour, Procedures, Stoppers and Corks When people hear you're a wine importer, their minds automatically fill with images of clinking glasses in sun-drenched vineyards, elegant dinners in French chateaux,...
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Priorat: Where Wine Rises to Heaven
As its name suggests, the Priorat Qualified Designation of Origin has deeply spiritual roots. Unlike other European wine-growing areas founded by Cistercian monks, it was the Carthusians—an even more austere...
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Confusing Terms III - Maturation
Phenolic Maturation: The Hidden Key to Wine I frequently receive questions about various aspects of wine and vineyards. Many of them inspire me to write these articles. Wine is an...
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Wines from the Central Mountain Range
In the mountains of the Cordillera Central of Spain, in 1468, Queen Isabel was crowned Princess of Asturias and heir to the crown of Castile in the village of El...
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Pairing According to the Terroir: Spanish Wines...
My job as an importer and distributor of Spanish wines is not just about selecting great wine. I look for wines with character, those that tell the story of their...
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Cover Crops and Biodiversity
Vineyards are living beings and, like any living thing, they require adequate nutrients on a constant basis. We, for example, need different vitamins, but taking them as a routine every...
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The Cork Tree
Quercus Suber - The Cork In the last blog, we talked about oak and the shared history between wine and oak. Today, we'll continue with the topic of trees and wine,...
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