Articles
Familia Torres, Northwest Catalunya
by Miquel Hudin | 13-06-2024
These are wines from the inland and northern projects of the Torres Family. From DO Conca de Barberà we see the Milmanda as well as the Grans Muralles.... more »
Gil Family Estates 2024
by Miquel Hudin | 12-06-2024
A name in Spanish wine that a great many people have encountered is that of Juan Gil, part of the Gil Family Estates. With their first wines bottled... more »
Familia Torres – Grans Muralles 2019
by Miquel Hudin | 10-06-2024
There’s strength in diversity and don’t let some wayward soul tell you otherwise. The Torres family knows this better than anyone as for something like three decades now,... more »
The wines of Burgundy 2024
by Miquel Hudin | 07-06-2024
“Well I guess you don’t hang out with a lot of billionaires.” During the week and a half I spend in Burgundy this past March there were of... more »
Hail destroys up to 1,500ha of vineyards in Penedès
by Miquel Hudin | 05-06-2024
On Saturday, June 1st, in the Penedès region of Catalunya there was a hailstorm that lasted just 30 minutes. But what it lacked for in terms of length,... more »
Food Through Wine: La Cooperativa, Porrera, Catalunya
by Miquel Hudin | 04-06-2024
A regular series that reviews dining through the lens of wine both good… and bad. It was in preparing to write this article that I realized I’ve been... more »
The wines of Alicante 2024
by Miquel Hudin | 29-05-2024
Alicante came to be as a DO in the 1930s, but it wasn’t given a full regulatory council until 1957 as was the case for all the DOs... more »
Estévez – Versos de Valtuille – La Vitoriana 2021
by Miquel Hudin | 27-05-2024
It’s amazing how what we perceive as fixed, is never actually set in stone. You change even one piece of a greater entity and it’s just “different” even... more »
Wine Plus+
by Miquel Hudin | 22-05-2024
I'm of many minds as to why the closure of Wine & Spirits print magazine didn't get more attention than it did. I feel like people didn't read... more »
Top Shelf: Montecillo Viña Monty 1964
by Miquel Hudin | 20-05-2024
It’s either hard to remember or we simply don’t want to, but there was this blurry, foul period in time wherein we were tasting wine and talking to... more »