CEDEIRA (A CORUÑA) FESTA DO PERCEBE – GOOSENECK BARNACLE FAIR JULY 29 & 30 Cedeira is one of the prettiest fishing villages in Galicia, and the surrounding area is one of breathtaking natural beauty, boasting the highest cliffs in continental Europe at 2,000ft. The town population swells in the summer months due to…
Sílice Viticultores Sober, Ribeira Sacra, Galicia, Spain In a world (Galicia) where some establishments still insist on foisting heavily oaked rioja on you, it comes as a very pleasant surprise when more and more clued in bar and restaurant owners stock vigneron wines from the Ribeira Sacra, Valdeorras, Monterrei and Rías Baixas regions. An…
Galician Olive Oil While most people associate Spanish olive oil with the south of Spain, particularly Andalucía, people here in Galicia have been quietly making the stuff for centuries now, though admittedly in minute quantities. Once one of the most prolific Spanish olive oil producing regions, catastrophe struck in the late fifteenth century…
A Emoción dos Vinhos Travelling to the vigneron fair A Emoción dos Vinhos in Valença do Minho this summer was a real voyage of discovery on so many levels. The opportunity to meet so many ‘wine whisperers’ under one roof was just too good to miss. I tasted a great many superb wines over that…
CACHICÁN 2015 – DEMENCIA WINE The word is out that Nacho León has launched CACHICÁN 2015, now a firmly established marque at DEMENCIA WINE. The story of this wine goes back to 2013 when Bruno Arias, assistant winemaker at Demencia, worked his very first harvest at the winery. Bruno was hired initially in a distribution…