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In Photos – A Tasting at Mustilli Winery
Posted on February 8, 2012 by Andrew Barrow in Vineyard Visits, Wine NotesI've been in Italy, vineyard hopping, snow permitting, from Umbria down to Campania and Naples. Not just me, I should add, but a party of fabulous people gathered in Italy for the International Wine Tourism Conference and various trips out...
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Winery Steps, Castello della Sala
Posted on February 6, 2012 by Andrew Barrow in Photographs, Vineyard VisitsA day late with this Sunday Snapshot post; but I have an excuse - I have spent the last week in Italy. It seems an age ago now, but in reality it was just over a week that our...
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Tramin Winery, Alto Adige, Italy
Posted on December 16, 2011 by Andrew Barrow in Vineyard Visits, Wine NotesIt’s a rather dramatic building; vibrantly painted struts form abstract shapes with the windows reflecting the forested mountains behind. The Tramin winery nestled under these crags overlooks a flat, almost featureless plain that folds on down to a river...
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Coopers, Raimat Winery, Spain
Posted on November 6, 2011 by Andrew Barrow in Photographs, Vineyard VisitsSunday Wine Shot 001 - Taking inspiration from my good friend Cooksister’s regular Saturday photo slot, this is the first of a regular Sunday posting of a wine related photograph. This was taken during a tour last June...
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Bastianich, Friulano
Posted on October 31, 2011 by Andrew Barrow in Vineyard Visits, Wine NotesI had no idea where we were; I was a little unsure which day it actually was. But here we were, disgorged from the bus at a vineyard somewhere in the wilds of Fruili. My little GPS positioning...
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Apples and Vines – Hush Heath Vineyard
Posted on October 3, 2011 by Andrew Barrow in Vineyard VisitsThey chose to make a pink sparkling wine simply "because it makes me smile". With a marketing head on they - that's Richard Balfour-Lynn and his wife - were after a distinct point of difference too. From the heart of...
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Vina Pomol, Rioja, Spain
Posted on August 1, 2011 by Andrew Barrow in Vineyard Visits, Wine NotesIt's an iconic little shack, seen a million times in wine magazines and publicity shots, emblazoned with the winery's name. Shack is doing it an injustice. Think more rustic, stone-built, wooden-beamed building rather than a tin lean-too. It sits in...
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Visiting Raimat
Posted on July 7, 2011 by Andrew Barrow in Vineyard VisitsYou couldn't get more of a contrast. The previous day there were scrubby little patches of vines, precariously eking out an existence on the hills above Scala Dei. Today, having moved further...
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Codorníu Cathedral of Cava
Posted on June 21, 2011 by Andrew Barrow in Vineyard VisitsOK, so which plonker left his copious, in-depth, beautifully crafted Codorníu Cava tasting notes in a certain Barcelona hotel room? That'll be me then. What this does give though...
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Video: View Across Priorat
Posted on June 19, 2011 by Andrew Barrow in Videos, Vineyard VisitsA little, terribly amateur video, taken from Montsant over-looking the wine region of Priorat. Talking is Sarah Jane Evans MW and Ricard Rofes head wine maker for Scala Dei. (Where did that extra 'e' come from in the opening...
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