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 […]

VÍ vid´s visit to Les Useres, Poble de Ví.

June 13, 2016

The hilltop village of Les Useres in the Alcalaten county  of Castellon province calls itself the `Poble de Vi.´ With it’s just over 1000 inhabitants it has some seven bodegas.  Clos d´Esgarracordes, Flors and  El Mollet-Roques Negres, are three of which we have been following very closely for some  years. Over the weekend the town held its 4th annual fair, based around all the bodegas but including the local bakers, butchers, cheese makers and other artisans. Our visit this year coincided with […]

Cervezas Tyris Launch Their New Image.

May 25, 2016

Pioneer craft ale producer, Tyris, whose brewery is in Riba Roja, launched their new lables on Thursday evening 12 May. The award-winning brewery founded by Dani Vara and Gonzalo Abia has undergone spectacular growth and good sales since we discovered their bottle conditioned beers for the first time in April 2011. Since then the brewery has increased its range of ales and opened a bar in Central Valencia, Tyris on Tap, where beer lovers can enjoy the full range on tap as […]

Bodegas J. Chivite visit Valencia

May 19, 2016

Tuesday, 10 May, was the turn of Bodegas J. Chivite to present its wines in Valencia. The tasting, one of the best organised and presented took place in  `El Poblet´. A combination of  Valencia´s triple Michelin starred chef , Quique Dacosta, and some of Navarra and Rioja´s most iconic wines promised much and did not let the  invited Media down!                                                      Grupo Chivite is one of Spain’s oldest bodegas (1647) to remain in continuous production and is now under the 11th generation of […]