3 weeks ago
Introduction New to VI Vid! We have decided to publish the notes from our regular monthly tastings as a guide for a wider audience. We plan to do this every two months from here on. This blog covers the wines from the November and December 2025 tastings (143 and 144) The Cavas and Sparkling Wines. 1. Cava Sutra Brut, Macabeo/Chardonnay, Bodegas Arraez DO Cava Guarda 11.5%ABV. The bodega’s first Cava is a blend of 90% Macabeo with Chardonnay. It has a minimum […]
2 months ago
Celebrating a New Chapter in Wine Excellence The world of wine welcomed a distinguished new player with the inauguration of Bodegas Novos. […]
May 26, 2025
We visited the Latorre bodega in Venta del Moro for the first time in March 2014. We knew the wines well from […]
December 12, 2018
It was exactly one year since we had visited Juan Piqueras in his ‘garage’ bodega in Campo Arcis (https://wp.me/p7dfvi-1r5) . A year […]
October 9, 2018
A week is no time in the life of a wine-growing area especially when its history can be traced back to 2700 […]
March 31, 2018
On 22 March a new wine club for expatriates in Valencia commenced with a tasting in Macabeo Canovas, a restaurant near the […]
December 7, 2017
VÍ Vid had met with Antonio Piqueras a couple of times in 2016 when we attended some training days or `Jornadas´ organised […]
September 13, 2017
Wine made in traditional terracotta amphorae.
February 16, 2017
Around the end of January 2014 we visited a new Bodega in El Azagador, a hamlet of nearby Requena, to see the new facilities which had risen on the site of the old local cooperative. It seems this hamlet may be the home to a family of phoenixes. Last week we visited the new Bodegas Vibe which has literally arisen on the site of the old Bodegas Torroja which we reported on in January 2010. Vibe is a new project, based very […]
November 4, 2016
It was Jancis Robinson MW, who first identified Spain had a difficulty with marketing wines from regions other than Ribera del Duero, […]
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