Catalan Wines
Food Through Wine: Bar Cortijo, Tarragona, Catalunya
by Miquel Hudin | 20-09-2023
A regular series that reviews dining through the lens of wine. Tarragona is something of a strange city. It’s not small as it’s the second largest city in Catalunya that’s not in the Barcelona metropolitan... more »
And pop goes the Priorat
by Miquel Hudin | 08-09-2023
The evening of the 19th of August was a Saturday and wasn’t cool by any means. The summer heat still crinkled and surrounded with an unpleasant touch on the skin. Even with the sun having... more »
A “little” wine theft in Empordà
by Miquel Hudin | 02-08-2023
The well-known wine shop, Vins i Licors Grau in Palafrugell, Baix Empordà in Catalunya was the victim of a wine theft on 10 July, estimated to be 111,000€ in total losses based upon current secondary... more »
Vall Llach – Embruix 2021
by Miquel Hudin | 31-07-2023
While compiling this year’s lengthy Priorat report, I realized that I’ve tasted Vall Llach’s Embruix wine a good number of times. In fact, it would probably my most-tasted wine from Priorat with the exception of... more »
The wines of DOQ Priorat 2023
by Miquel Hudin | 24-07-2023
It’s that time of year for my annual analysis of the wines of DOQ Priorat which is accompanied by the Tasting Report that has over 150 wines scored for your drinking pleasure. There’s been a... more »
Celler de les Aus & U Més U, Catalan sparklings
by Miquel Hudin | 14-07-2023
In all fairness, these two sets of wines are quite different from one another, but are both from Catalunya and feature sparkling wines. The firsts are those from the Celler de les Aus project that’s... more »
Pepe Raventós – Mas del Serral 2012
by Miquel Hudin | 03-07-2023
Viewing it as just another year in the grand litany of years we’ve accumulated as a species, I’ve nothing against 2012. In fact, I look back on it rather fondly as I’d just moved to... more »
The changes at Celler de Capçanes
by Miquel Hudin | 28-06-2023
In the big scheme of things, a decade really isn’t much of anything, but for Anna Rovira, the head enologist at Celler de Capçanes in DO Montsant, Catalunya, the span of 10 years has pretty... more »
A look at Torres’ Clos Ancestral wines
by Miquel Hudin | 21-06-2023
Piece by piece, a decades-long project is coming to fruition for the Torres winery. These two wines reviewed below are comprised of grape varieties that were part of a long, long initiative to bring back... more »
Tast del Decenni 2023: The DOQ Priorat 2013 vintage
by Miquel Hudin | 14-06-2023
So after this forced stretch of time out in the weeds, we’ve now returned to holding the annual Tast del Decenni events for DOQ Priorat. What these are is very simple in concept in that... more »