by Wine Explorer | Nov 19, 2021 | The Wine Explorers Letter
The earliest known record of people playing chess (or chess as we know it, at least) comes from Valencia, on Spain’s Mediterranean coast, in the 15th century. At that point, Valencia was the largest city in the Kingdom of Aragon (proto-Spain) and one of the largest in...
by Wine Explorer | Nov 12, 2021 | The Wine Explorers Letter
In the northeast of Spain, just outside the coastal city of Barcelona, a small mountain range called the Muntanyes d’Ordal wring some of the moisture out of the Mediterranean air as it reaches the hill country of Penedès. Rainfall in parts of Penedès can be high for a...
by Wine Explorer | Oct 29, 2021 | The Wine Explorers Letter
Happy Hallowine! In this week’s special Halloween video, resident expert Julien Miquel takes a break from our regularly scheduled content to show us some of the spookiest wines on the market, for your perfect, grown-up Halloween treat… The two previous weeks took us...
by Wine Explorer | Oct 22, 2021 | The Wine Explorers Letter
A little ways inland from Spain’s northern coast, the wet sea air collides with the Cantabrian Mountains, swelling the Ebro river with rainwater as it flows southeast towards the town of Haro, in Rioja. La Sierra CantabriaCredit: Basotxerri, Wikimedia You’ve heard of...
by Wine Explorer | Oct 15, 2021 | The Wine Explorers Letter
Nowhere else in Europe do the echoes of the ancient and medieval ages still reverberate so clearly as in the valleys and plains of northern Spain. In the cellars of Berceo, the oldest winery in the town of Haro, you find the old tunnels of Haro Castle, razed in the...
