On 29 and 30 September 2021 we will have our first 2-day wine tour! We will take you to the Priorat and Cava wine regions north of Valencia, with an overnight stay in Tarragona. We’ll leave Valencia a bit early as we have a 3-hour drive to the first winery ahead of us, including a (20-minute) stop on the way for a coffee/toilet break…

Slovenia is diverse. In every single way. In terms of geography, this tiny country has four very unique regions with a multitude of landscapes. Culturally and historically speaking, the name “crossroads of Europe” sums it up nicely: Slovenia has received an injection of cultures on a colourful platter of areas for centuries. Viticultural is no exception…

Have you ever done a wine tasting? I hope you didn’t have to spit out the wine…. we don’t do that here! Apart from learning something about wine, a wine tasting should be fun, and spitting out wine is no fun at all, and absolutely unnecessary if you taste only 3-4-5 wines…

If you leave the city of Valencia and go direction Madrid, into the interior, you’ll get to the wine region of Utiel-Requena, at about 70 kms from the coast. The region gets its name from its two main villages, Utiel and Requena…

Valencia has become a very popular tourist destination in recent years, and rightly so: it has a lot to offer in terms of beautiful historical buildings, spectacular modern architecture, like Calatrava’s City of Arts and Science , great beaches, a cosy old centre with many small squares and little shops, gastronomy (the famous paella!) and very good wine…

Would you like a first-hand experience of grape picking, followed by a relaxing afternoon with a perfect lunch, sipping wine…? We’re planning some special wine tours to Utiel-Requena during the time of the “vendimia”, the grape harvest; you should join us!..

Valencia is known worldwide for its oranges, but its long days of warm sun and position next to the Mediterranean Sea also make it an ideal place for growing grapes. Generally speaking, Valencian wines tend to be intense, with body, structure and a relatively high alcohol content. Within the general region, one can distinguish seven or eight main wine producing areas, each with its own specific topography, climate, and very often its own dominant grape variety, resulting in an array of very different wines…

We continue with our series on the Wines of Valencia, and this time we look at the region closest to Valencia city, the DOP Valencia, which is divided into four sub-regions. We discuss the differences between the sub-regions, grape varieties, and give examples of wines to look for when you’re in Valencia…

We continue our series on the wines of Valencia with Castellón, the region just north of the city of Valencia. Despite Castellón’s long and interesting history of wine production, it is now only an “upcoming wine region”, but one with some interesting wines worth trying…