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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...

La Uva Misión, Los Misioneros y Las Americas

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,...

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...

La Verdadera Vida del Importador de Vinos

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,...

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...

Terminos que Confunden III - La Maduración

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...

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...

Maridaje Según el Terruño: Vinos Españoles y la Riqueza Gastronómica Mexicana

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...

Los Cover Crops (Cultivos de Cobertura) y La Biodiversidad

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...

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,...

Oak

Like any plant, trees grow according to the fertility of the soil and the type of climate in which they grow. For example, a pine tree does not develop...

A Changing World

The word alcohol comes from the Arabic al-kuhl , a word used to name a powder used to paint eyelids kohl , a term that in those times was...

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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.