WINE AND FRIENDS

Dear friends, This story started at the 2025 American Wine Society Annual Conference in Chantilly, VA. I attended to obtain my Wine Jugde certification but the conference had much more to offer. I participated in very interesting morning and afternoon sessions and I flew around like a bee in the exhibitor’s hall getting to know the wines and the people behind them. It was a marvellous experience that I would recommend anybody who loves wine and can wisely control its inges

Dear friends, I am happy to provide you a new post with my review of Chairman's Selection wines presently at the store. I have focussed on affordable wines and, in fact, currently there are many with excellent quality / price ratio. I am not sure about the reason. Maybe the present imbalance between supply and demand is favoring low prices or maybe the PLCB is doing a wonderful job at getting us good wines at competitive prices. In any case this is welcome! I am starting

Dear friends, During my October 2024 - June 2025 stay in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid province, I had the opportunity to travel through Spain and visit interesting wine regions and wineries. To my delight, some of those trips were short because Madrid province has developed a diverse wine industry with a large assortment of wines. From small, traditional wineries, to small boutique ones, to incipient larger producers, using local and French grape varietals, the wines

Dear friends, I visited Bernabeleva with my brother Juancho and friend Jes ú s in December 2018 and created a post that you can find under Wine Trip Reports tab. This second visit, my brother-in-law Jerry and I focused on learning more about its "terroir". You will find in this post a series of videos capturing some of our improvised conversations with Juan D í ez Bulnes, the owner and founder. They were very interesting and informative and I plan to use some of them as ma