AN/2 & Cosme Palacio Blanco 1894 at Barcelona
February 7, 2012 by adamjapko
Filed under Dining, Featured, Restaurants, Top Wine & Food Experiences, Wine Reviews, Wine Values
The world is better off for places like Barcelona. Wines such as Anima Negra AN/2 from Majorca’s red callet grape and Bodegas Palacios Cosme Palacio Blanco 1894 from Rioja’s white viura variety don’t make it onto just any wine list. But at Barcelona Restaurant and Wine Bar, ten minutes off of I-84 in (of all places?) West Hartford’s [...]
Tempranillo Shows Range and Value in Rioja
June 19, 2011 by adamjapko
Filed under Featured, Wine Events, Wine Regions, Wine Values
Last month the Vibrant Rioja US tour rolled east from San Francisco to New York. Its campaign organizers staged grand tastings in both cities coupled with two smaller, invitation-only tasting seminars designed to showcase the widest possible range of Tempranillo treatment and expression. It was fun showing up in my Big Apple home town, birthplace [...]
Sherry Tasting: A Fortified Wine Spectrum and Two Shining Stars
April 14, 2010 by adamjapko
Filed under Featured, Wine Regions, Wine Tastings, WineZag
There are no Sherry tastings to be found in a twenty-plus-year search of tasting events lingering historically in my personal Outlook calendar. That was until this past weekend when I had the chance to taste a full range of styles at a Dale Cruse hosted Sherry and Tapas onslaught including Fino, Manzanilla, Oloroso, Amontillado, [...]
