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With Perfect Temps and Ideal Yields, A Spanish Vintage for the Ages
With Perfect Temps and Ideal Yields, A Spanish Vintage for the Ages
BY MICHAEL SCHACHNER Spain’s 2016 vintage will go down as one of its all-time greats. It’s certainly one of the best harvests of this generation and a benchmark year against which future stellar vintages will be measured. From coast to coast and at all points in between, favorable conditions from spring through fall allowed Spain’s winemakers to produce splendidly balanced and expressive wines. Best of all, the high quality is apparent in white, red and sparkling wines, and it isn’t limited to the country’s most rare and expensive collectibles. It’s a year in which the majority of the country’s wines, regardless of price or pedigree, are at their finest. “[It] was an outstanding vintage throughout Spain,” says Miguel Torres Maczassek, director general of Familia...
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GREAT VALUE WINES: 8 PRIORAT FOR UNDER $40
GREAT VALUE WINES: 8 PRIORAT FOR UNDER $40
Monday, August 9, 2021 8 Tasting Notes Defined by old-vine Mediterranean varieties, the tiny wine-growing region of Priorat in northeastern Spain rapidly rose to international acclaim in the late ‘90s and made a name for itself producing brooding, tarry, spicy and minerally attractive wines charged with concentration and fine tannins dialed into the fruit – from the powerful carignan (locally known as samso), bright grenache, spicy syrah and sometimes even from dense cabernet sauvignon and merlot. Unsurprisingly, yield from the poor, schist soils in the dry, sun-drenched terraced landscapes of Catalonia is low, and adding in the high production costs...
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9 Superb Spanish Wines For Your Summer Barbecue
9 Superb Spanish Wines For Your Summer Barbecue
Isabelle Kliger Contributor Travel The sun is shining, temperatures are rising and barbecue season is upon us. Before you fire up the grill, make sure you’ve got something delicious to wash down all that smoky food. Coming from a hot, sunny climate, Spanish people know a thing or two about staying refreshed on a scorching summer day. Spanish wines are a great choice for a summer barbecue. GETTY Spain is home to some of Europe’s preeminent wine-growing regions, including Rioja, Ribera del Duero and Priorat. Spanish red wine is famous the world over, but what about the lesser-known whites, the...
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F&W Game Changers: Now That’s Good Wine
F&W Game Changers: Now That’s Good Wine
Miguel A. Torres is rallying the wine industry to fight climate change. By Ray Isle June 16, 2021 CREDIT: GABRIEL HOLLINGTON Chalk it up to Al Gore. In 2007, Miguel A. Torres saw the former VP's documentary An Inconvenient Truth and decided that as a winery "we had to accelerate. Of course," he says, "ecology was always a part of our philosophy. We live from the earth, and we are also a family-owned company, so this combination always led us, and still does, to care for our land and resources. Not just for this generation, but also for future generations." Read the full article...
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Green Teams
Green Teams
Winegrowers band together to address environmental challenges and ensure long-term success The existential and economic threats of 2020 didn’t stop wineries from pressing ahead with critical environmental and social initiatives. On the contrary, even throughout the pandemic shutdowns, the wine community found opportunities to collaborate across borders and make remarkable strides—all while coping with complex health and safety restrictions, new approaches to selling wine with restaurants and tasting rooms closed, trade wars that wrenched global distribution and massive wildfires in the U.S. and Australia. “The best premium companies must stand up and lead by example in the fight to prevent...
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Mediterranean Spain: Where to Start?
Mediterranean Spain: Where to Start?
BY JOSH RAYNOLDS | MARCH 18, 2021 The sprawling area of Spain’s Mediterranean rim starts in Catalonia and sweeps south and west through Penedès, Tarragona, Valencia and Murcia, then west to Andalusia. It also includes, for obvious reasons, the island of Mallorca. The range of wines produced from these sea-influenced zones is staggering, from bone-dry bubblies to structured, world-class reds and some of the most decadent sweet wines in the world. ... Back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, in many ways Penedès was the region that pushed Spain’s red wines into the international spotlight. Based on Bordeaux varieties but almost exclusively...
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2020: Lockdown stories – view from the vines
2020: Lockdown stories – view from the vines
As our lives and horizons suddenly closed in around us, growing more limited in the year of Covid-19, it was perhaps difficult to appreciate what other people ‘out there’, elsewhere in the world, were experiencing and feeling. Peter Richards MW spoke to winemakers in six different nations to find out how they and their teams coped as events developed Peter Richards MWDecember 28, 2020 Erni Loosen during lockdown Surreal. That’s the word many winemakers use about lockdown, a stark new reality that defined 2020: the year that Covid-19 struck. ‘It was like floating in a bubble – your world feels...
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TOP 100 WINES OF SPAIN 2020
TOP 100 WINES OF SPAIN 2020
Most of you know that Spain makes incredible value wines, but I am not talking about super cheap bottles in supermarkets. The strength of Spanish wines are those that sell for between $15 and $40 a bottle and show deft sophistication, unique character and wonderful drinkability. This is why the focus for this year’s list of the Top 100 Wines of Spain is clearly on value, particularly in the Top 10 wines. If you follow Spanish wines even slightly, you probably already know the top names who make superb and rare wines such as Vega Sicilia, Alvaro Palacios, Telmo Rodriguez,...
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Decanter World Wine Awards 2020: Familia Torres
Decanter World Wine Awards 2020: Familia Torres
Best in Show: The top 50 wines of DWWA 2020: Grans Muralles, DO Conca de Barberà, 2016 Gold Medal: Celeste Reserva, DO Ribera del Duero, 2015 (95) Pazo das Bruxas, DO Rías Baixas, 2019 (95) Silver Medal: Milmanda, DO Conca de Barberà, 2017 (91) Perpetual, DOQ Priorat 2017 (90) Salmos, DOQ Priorat, 2017 (91)
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