Essays

Goodbye Twitter & Facebook. Hello upstarts.

by  |  20-01-2025 ~ 1 Comment

With the publication of this article, the Twitter and Facebook accounts/pages for Hudin.com and myself, are completely deleted. I realize it might be hard for those in the wine world to give up these platforms.... more »

The Catalan Vi Novell wines of 2024

by  |  17-01-2025

The time has arrived to taste the wines of the Vi Novell association for 2024 which you can view as a Tasting Report here. This apparently marks a half decade that I’ve been following their... more »

La cuesta de enero 2025

by  |  07-01-2025

While this series had a couple of early starts, it truly came into being two years ago, in 2023. It was something created to "celebrate" the general rise in prices across Spain, but it seems... more »

Celebrating a fine, fifth anniversary

by  |  09-09-2024 ~ 2 Comments

We're very excited to have arrived at the fifth anniversary of Hudin.com this week! To celebrate these exciting five years, we'd like to make a very special offer of 50% off subscriptions for only 15... more »

Tasting the 2020 Grandes Maisons of Burgundy

by  |  08-08-2024

It was somewhere around 80 of us who filed into the Château de Santenay of Domaine Philippe le Hardi on 21 March, 2024 during the week of Grands Jours de Bourgogne. Admittedly it felt like... more »

A word on scoring at Hudin.com

by  |  23-05-2024

For those who haven't seen it, please have a look at how we score wines on Hudin.com and also how the three-star scores that accompany the numerical ones are intended to function. We bring attention... more »

Top Shelf: Montecillo Viña Monty 1964

by  |  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 people through our laptop and mobile screens.... more »

Spain’s newest DO: Campo de Calatrava

by  |  26-02-2024

In something of a surprising Valentine's Day "gift", on 14 February, Brussels approved Spain's newest denomination of origin, Campo de Calatrava. Located in the vast territory of Castilla-La Mancha around Ciudad Real (about 100km to... more »

Straight takes from Peter Sisseck

by  |  12-02-2024

When working on the Ribero del Duero Report last year, I made a stop to Pingus and was fortunate to be able to have a lengthy chat with owner, founder and head of everything, Peter... more »

The wines of DO Montsant 2023

by  |  19-06-2023

We arrive to this year’s report on DO Montsant and its accompanying Tasting Report of 100 wines which span the great wealth of quality wines on offer from the region. I say it with every... more »