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Wine Review: Exploring Less Common Spanish Reds
I found two Spanish red varieties that are nice alternatives stylistically to your typical Tempranillo based Spanish red. Let’s explore. Spain has so much more to offer in terms of red varieties besides Tempranillo and Garnacha. I’d start with Mencia from Galicia or Bierzo. Bobal is also great. Canary Island... Continue reading The post Wine Review: Exploring Less Common Spanish Reds appeared first on The Wine Diplomats .
by winediplomats3 viewswine-reviewsarribescastilla-y-leonespadeirogaliciajuan-garcia - news
LEARNING ABOUT WINE: Galicia: Atlantic Weather, Fragmented Vineyards, and the Long Recovery of a Wine Region
Galicia: Atlantic Weather, Fragmented Vineyards, and the Long Recovery of a Wine Region Galicia occupies the northwestern corner of Spain, facing the Atlantic and bordered by Portugal to the south, Asturias to the east, and the inland lands of Castile and León beyond its mountain barriers. That position has always set it slightly apart from ... Read more The post LEARNING ABOUT WINE: Galicia: Atlantic Weather, Fragmented Vineyards, and the Long Recovery of a Wine Region first appeared on My VanCity .
by Mitch RABINOWITZ2 viewswinealbarinoatlantic-edgeatlantic-weathercainocondado-do-tea - news
Collecting Coins in the Pub
I am always fascinated by the social and political aspects of the pub, perhaps more so even that the beery ones. Pubs, beer halls, biergartens, are all inherently social and political spaces, because they are places where humans get together and talk about the things that are important to them, or at least on their minds. Sure, folks can prattle on about not talking about politics or religion in polite society, but the pub, beer hall, or biergarten are not necessarily polite spaces, and so it is no surprise when you dig into the role such places have played in history that you learn interesting things...such as this story from the "Kuryer Lwowski" - that's Lemberger Courier for the non Polish speakers amongst us... As you can probably tell from the highlighted sections, I was doing a search on the legendary Prague beer hall, U Fleků, but this story from May 4th 1893 has nothing to do with black beer, or any other shade of booze, rather it comes from a story titled "How Czechs Collect D
by noreply@blogger.com (Alistair Reece)4 viewsaustro-hungarian-empirebeer-hallbiergartengaliciahistorykuryer-lwowski