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Small is Beautiful

Small producers have to push their way through a tiny gap in the market to get their wines noticed and appreciated and some succeed!

Unearthing Canarian Wines

Wine critics are currently drooling over the wines from the Canary Islands that are grown on lava soils, and we can understand why.

A Wine Experience

‘Experience filled holidays’ are becoming increasingly popular and they make a lot of sense...so why not book a wine experience?

Don't judge a rosé by its colour

A pale Spanish rosé, just for the fact that it is pale is not necessarily going to be better than any other rosé.

La Batalla del Vino

There is one other festival that is worthy of inclusion in the long list of bonkers, juvenile, crazy and fun filled festivals....

Algaida: where few people realise good wine is produced...

If you are visiting Mallorca for the first time it may come as a surprise to you that wine is produced on the island. Good wine too!!

The old and the new - ageing wine

We are now hearing about wines that are “fermented in concrete tanks” or “aged in amphorae” or, my favourite “aged in the concrete egg”.

The reign in Spain falls mainly on Garnacha

In Spain there is one grape variety that reigns above all others, garnacha (also known as grenache). Spain is garnacha!!

Jewels of Mallorca

For any visitor to the island it is becoming increasingly difficult to dig out the real jewels of the wine world scattered around Mallorca.