Acústic Celler – Blanc 2024

With the free fall in the wine world which may or may not be stabilizing despite all of us who love wine doing our part to drink it, producers are still trying to figure out wtf to do. And it seems that one of the main solution is… “Make white wine!” Much like I told my mother in regards to ‘investing’ in cryptocurrency, if you’re not already making white wine, then you’re too late to the game and the last thing we need is a white wine glut. There are […] For full access, please log in or purchase a subscription.

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A review of, “Penedès: Why Corpinnat Isn’t Cava”

It's a sign of not only a region's maturity, but also its high level of quality when people are clamoring to profile it via word and image. It's the latter which we see here in the short film, "Penedès: Why Corpinnat Isn’t Cava" that's been released by Vianédita. As is the case with many wine-related documentary pieces, they have a number overhead and harvest shots that are well done and frame the setting in the Penedès region. These are however offset with what are clearly AI-generated images to illustrate the historical parts of the video. I realize that original art is expensive to generate, but there's an aspect to this style of generative output that always comes up a bit short as it doesn't really capture a true essence of the subject. That and there are a number of paintings and other works around Catalunya that could have been used…

Telling a mountain to move

The Montsant Massif is a striking mountain range full of grey cliffs and sits at the northern point of Priorat Country in Catalunya, Spain. Meaning, “the holy mountain”, it’s inspirational in sheer, natural awe and it makes for no surprise as to why the Denomination of Origin Montsant made use of its name when created in 2001. Despite this well-crafted name and image which has brought local recognition, I personally haven’t heard anyone say, “Make mine a Montsant” when ordering a wine in London or San Francisco though. I mention […] For full access, please log in or purchase a subscription.

Torelló, Corpinnat, Catalunya

As one of the originals to break off from DO Cava in the Corpinnat split, Torelló has been a winery that I’ve been following for some time. They have a relatively broad range of wines, but all are from estate-grown grapes and quality runs from very good to absolutely excellent. Thus it was a nice surprise to receive this sample of their ‘Tradicional’ wine. If I’m not mistaken, this is their second-largest production wine of the 600,000 or so bottles they produce each year and it’s always a solid option, […] For full access, please log in or purchase a subscription .

Acústic Celler – Blanc 2024

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A review of, “Penedès: Why Corpinnat Isn’t Cava”

Telling a mountain to move

Torelló, Corpinnat, Catalunya