Wine of the week: Castillo San Lorenzo, Rioja – €7.49 Tesco

Posted on January 15th, 2010 No Comments yet

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San Lorenzo, a classically-styled Rioja (with a great name) half price – €7.49 – at Tesco. Olé.

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Wine for Christmas: Two vintages of Faustino I Gran Reserva

Posted on December 20th, 2009 5 Comments

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The ubiquitous Faustino brand has a couple of Gran Reserva choices which would perfectly match the Christmas din-dins.

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Video: Lar de Paula Rioja Crianza (2004)

Posted on October 3rd, 2008 No Comments yet

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A video tasting of another Rioja, a Crianza with a very interesting label.

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Video: La Rioja Alta Gran Reserva 904 (1995)

Posted on September 28th, 2008 2 Comments

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Inside, my first attempt at a video wine tasting. Cringe.

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Open wine 3 write-up: Baron de Ley Rioja and “GruVee” wine from 1983

Posted on June 13th, 2008 5 Comments

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Enowine enomatic system
The third open wine evening took place in Enowine, IFSC. We had a great night trying wines on the enomatic system, listening to a talk on Baron de Ley wines from Rioja and tasting a 25 year old wine from Austria.

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