Topic
#features
112 posts tagged with this topic. RSS feed.
- news
A deeper look at underwater wine aging
The waters, were calm. Just a few hours earlier they’d been a roiling mass of nature at its most violent; a cold boil of northern stormfront that had nearly derailed the boat tour planned for the morning. The boat in question wasn’t large and was made a good deal smaller once a dozen people boarded it, but it cut a calm path out from the harbor of O Grove, a coastal town near Pontevedra, Galicia. Narrating the adventure as we went out was, Laura Vázquez, the wife of Robustiano Fariña, […] For full access, please log in or purchase a subscription.
by Miquel Hudin1 viewfeaturesspanish-winesalbarinoattisgaliciarias-baixas - news
About the advertorial
"Ni carn ni peix." This phrase in Catalan is one that any regular reader knows I keep coming back to as I simply love it. "Neither meat nor fish" is the literal translation, but the implied meaning is that something (or even someone) is simply undefined and unable to be classified and it applies no better than to the 'advertorial.' These arrive to us under a variety of names whether it be: "sponsored content", "promotional feature", "advertising supplement", or many, many others. The concept is the same in that they're paid advertising dressed up to look like regular editorial in a publication. Thus while 100% advertising, they're also 'content' and in turn, ni carn ni peix. The Merriam-Webster dictionary states that the first known use was in 1917, so they've been around longer than any of us have been alive. All my life it's certainly felt this way and to…
by Miquel Hudin4 viewsessaysfeatureswebsites-blogs - news
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.
by Miquel Hudin11 viewscatalan-winesfeaturesdo-montsant - news
Six more wines under a tenner 2026
Here are some great wine suggestions for wines under £10. Reds, whites and roses. Wine reviews by Lisa Johnston (thewinemuse) The post Six more wines under a tenner 2026 appeared first on winemusing .
by Lisa Johnston1 viewfeaturesmusingstop-valuewhat-s-good - news
More English Sparkling wines ….
More English sparkling wines are special wine and should be in your glass. Wine reviews by Lisa Johnston (thewinemuse). The post More English Sparkling wines …. appeared first on winemusing .
by Lisa Johnston1 viewfeaturesmusings - news
The wines of Collioure & Banyuls 2026
One of the highlights in my wine reporting calendar is to visit and taste the wines of Collioure, Banyuls, and the greater Côte Vermeille. This year, it’s a large batch with over 110 wines reviewed from AOC Collioure and the AOCs of Banyuls & Banyuls Grand Cru. Why am I so impassioned by a trip to the region? Simply look at the lead photo from Collioure where there are something like five beaches nestled around the village in natural coves. From all of them you either have a view of […] For full access, please log in or purchase a subscription.
by Miquel Hudin16 viewsfeaturesfrench-winesaoc-banyulsaoc-collioure - news
The broad view for Wines of Portugal
The first part of my trip to Porto for Alive Taste this summer was, to put it mildly, mind-blowingly hot–and this is from someone who lives on the Mediterranean side of the Iberian Peninsula. Thankfully, the initial day only saw brief kisses of the actually heat outside as I quickly hopped from plane to waiting car to hotel to bus and eventually finding my way to the “World of Wine” center created by Taylor Fladgate. Abbreviated as WOW, it absolutely lives up to its name with an intricate complex of […] For full access, please log in or purchase a subscription.
by Miquel Hudin15 viewseventsfeaturesportuguese-winesalentejoalgarvemadeira - news
Of Substack & wine
To borrow Ernest Hemingway’s observation on going bankrupt, wine writing on Substack started gradually and then happened all at once. It’s no secret that classic wine media has been in a decline in terms of subscribers as well as losing a publication (or two) year upon year. This isn’t the case for Substack which, despite being founded way back in 2017, it seems most everyone writing about wine or, pretty much anything in the world, has arrived in the past year to try and hack through the madness and earn a few bucks, directly from readers. This has quickly taken on a new dimension with Substack finally creating a subsection of the Rising and Top lists that breaks off Wine & Spirits from Food & Drink as that category is massive and few in the land of drinks ever cracked it. It seems we have some core Substack staff members…
by Miquel Hudin19 viewsfeatureswebsites-blogs - news
Reinventing the wine
Unlike most other alcohols, selling wine over the last half century has required not just branding, but a narrative, and despite being very aware of this, wine has never actually managed to fully control its own narrative. You can see this when it was all fun and games being an excellent part of the Mediterranean Diet. Back then, wine was viewed as the ‘healthy’ booze for a healthy lifestyle. But once the bottomless mouth holes on The Socials, along with the some of the most corrupt/boring politicians in recent history started decrying wine (as well as alcohol in general) as ‘evil’, that whole narrative unraveled like silk lingerie, machine washed on the cotton cycle. Thus, despite wine never being better made as well as very accessible to all levels of income, consumption of wine has been in a freefall ever since we emerged from the darkest days of the pandemic.…
by Miquel Hudin18 viewsfeaturesportuguese-winesport - news
The brilliant Douro wines of Mateus Nicolau de Almeida/Ameztoy & Almeida
Website: https://ameztoyalmeida.com/ Mateus Nicolau de Almeida is the son of the well known João Nicolau d’Almeida of Ramos Pinto fame,
by jamiegoode20 viewsfeatureslatestportugaldouro - news
Sablière: a new 0% alcohol sparkling ‘wine’ designed from first principles
Website: https://sabliere.co.uk/ I’ve written quite a bit about the attempts to make interesting, complex dealcoholized wines. There’s another approach, which
by jamiegoode15 viewsfeatureslatest - news
The wines of Zacharioudakis, Crete
Website: https://www.zacharioudakis.com/en/ Zacharioudakis is a family-owned winery from northern Crete, near Heraklion. It was started in 2000 by journalist Stelios
by jamiegoode16 viewsfeaturesgreecelatest - news
Reynolds Wine Growers: top wines from the cooler north of Portugal’s Alentejo
Website: https://reynoldswinegrowers.com/en/ Reynolds Wine Growers is a significant producer, with a 200 hectare farm in Figuera de Cima, with 40
by jamiegoode16 viewsfeatureslatestportugalregionsalentejo - news
The wines of DOQ Priorat & DO Montsant 2026
With what appears to be the earliest harvest on record just about everywhere in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s time to take a look at two of the leading regions in Spain, DOQ Priorat and DO Montsant as well as their well as their respective Tasting Reports here and here. I won’t mince words as it’s a rather crucial time in their evolution as regions. It’s not unfair to say that things aren’t easy for wine producers in general and being a region in Europe that produces predominantly red wines with […] For full access, please log in or purchase a subscription.
by Miquel Hudin16 viewscatalan-winesfeaturesdo-montsantdoq-prioratpriorat - news
Exploring Beaumes-de-Venise (1) introducing this interesting Rhône Cru
Beaumes-de-Venise is a small but interesting Cru in the southern Rhône. Initially, it was made a cru for its sweet
by jamiegoode14 viewsfeatureslatestregionsrhonebeaumes-de-venise - news
Biofiltro: cleaning up winery waste water with worm power, creating high-quality compost at the same time
Website: https://biofiltro.be/ Biofiltro is an innovative way of dealing with winery waste water. And the bonus is that because it
by jamiegoode14 viewsfeatureslatestwine-science - news
The wines of Rioja 2026
The Rioja wine region is a mighty, impressive ship. It seems to have the ability to weather most any storm. But, despite its might, will the current downward trends in wine drinking, especially reds, prove too much to handle? That remains to be seen, but via the current Tasting Report and a week spent in the region in June, a vast number of changes are happening to keep the ship afloat as well as build a bridge to better times. A work ever in progress About this time last year, […] For full access, please log in or purchase a subscription.
by Miquel Hudin20 viewsfeaturesspanish-winesdoc-rioja - news
The Holy Trinity
While on a trip to Porto and the Douro recently, a colleague and I started talking about “field blends” and I admitted that I find the mystique given to them to be a bit, how shall we say… ‘bullshit’. It’s often part of the branding at many wineries that, if they have an old vineyard, they’ll upsell the aspect that they pick all the grapes together and ferment the one as one, singular, beautiful wine. The idea being that over time, the vineyard has been planted with a vast array […] For full access, please log in or purchase a subscription.
by Miquel Hudin22 viewscatalan-winesfeaturescarignandoq-prioratgrenache - news
Video: visiting an agroforestry coffee plantation in Brazil, the 15 hectare Sombra experiment that’s a collaboration between Fazenda Mió and Volcano Coffee Works in the UK
Coffee is often grown as a monocrop. Here, at Fazenda Mió in Brazil I’m visiting a 15 hectare agroforestry experiment,
by jamiegoode19 viewsbrazilcoffeefeatureslatestvideos - news
Six wines from UK independent wine merchant Tanners
Website: https://www.tanners-wines.co.uk/ Tanners is a highly competent independent merchant chain, who also do quite a bit of regional wholesale. These
by jamiegoode16 viewsfeatureslatest - news
Champagne Perrier Jouët have implemented regenerative viticulture in half of their vineyard area, and they are already seeing differences in the base wines
Jamie Goode travels to Champagne to visit the vineyards of Perrier-Jouët. Five years ago they began trialling regenerative approaches and
by jamiegoode20 viewschampagnefeatureslatestregionswine-science - news
Highlights: Klein Constantia Vin de Constance 2023 South Africa
This is the latest vintage of one of the world’s great sweet wines. It’s the Vin de Constance from Klein
by jamiegoode21 viewsfeatureshighlightslatestsouth-africatop-storiesconstantia - news
Excursions off the Riesling trail: what else can the Finger Lakes do?
This was a seminar at the FLXcursion event that I’ve just come back from. The goal was to explore the
by jamiegoode17 viewsfeatureslatestnew-york-state - news
Price sensitive: is depremiumisation the future?
Having spent years promoting premiumisation, the global spirits industry now finds itself pushing more affordable options The post Price sensitive: is depremiumisation the future? appeared first on The Spirits Business .
by Nicola Carruthers18 viewsdraw-infeaturefeaturespremiumisation