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VÍ vid visits Bodegas BOCOPA.

January 30, 2017

Bocopa, the Petrer based bodega, celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. 1987 was the year that saw several small bodegas in DO Alicante pool their resources to improve their marketing prospects and production techniques and volumes. The new bodega brought together some 8000 hectares of vines, mostly in the Vinalopó and  La Marina Alta together with 1800 vineyard owners. Today the bodega is one of  Alicantes reference bodegas, producing more than 60% of the wine from the DO. But, right from the […]

A Busy Start to October for VÍ vid.

October 12, 2016

The summer holidays seem but a distant memory and VÍ vid have started October at a fast pace. September had finished with our course reported in our last blog. Valencia is currently halfway through the 3rd Jornadas Gastronómicas de Arroces Marineros, a now well established fortnight where restaurants from the Association of Restaurants by  the Las Arenas beach   show their best traditional and modern seafood rice dishes, accompanied by wines from the Valencian Region and using DO Valencia rice varieties. 18 […]

VÍ vid goes to the Cambra Vineyard Nursery!

July 21, 2016

July is traditionally the time when we take the opportunity to increase our knowledge of the background to  the vineyards and the wines of the Valencian Region. It is one of the times of the year when courses and seminars take over from events. Behind every good vineyard are the vines which fill them. Where do they come from? Who grows them, what varieties are available, how much do they cost and  how does it all work? In June we met Vicente […]