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Almudena de Llaguno: a pioneer journey
We look at the moment that Spanish wineries are living in the US through the eyes of a true pioneer: Almudena de Llaguno. Almudena founded in 1985 with Steve Metzler Classical Wines from Spain, the first Spanish wine importing company in the country. Since then they...
Water: the underground treasure of Madrid
Madrid has a cathedral underground. And I would even say that it is more beautiful than our official one the Almudena cathedral. This is depot number 2 of the main water channel of Madrid, which is hidden underground. Unlike other European cities, Madrid does not have...
CASA DANI: DANI GARCIA’S NEW RESTAURANT IN NYC HAS BORN WITH A STAR
Two Michelin, specifically. They don't belong to him but to Smoked Room. His older cousin in Madrid has just made history by achieving this recognition with just under six months of life. What he started with “what could we do with this little corner that we have left...
My favorite Spanish wines 90+ in Guia Peñin
In recent weeks I´ve had the opportunity to participate in two of the most important wine events organized by Guia Peñin: the Hall of the Best Wines of Spain, in which 400 wineries presented more than 2,000 references that have obtained a score greater than 90 points...
Barrera Restaurant: you are not their client, you are their guest
My partner for lunch had left me hanging at the last minute due to an unforeseen event, but even so, I decided to keep my reservation at Barrera restaurant because it seemed like a bad touch to cancel last minute at a small family restaurant. I saw that I was also...
Organic kefir, 3,000 goats, and letur´s dream
To get to the little town of Letur in the southeast of Spain you must travel more than an hour from Albacete, the closest big city along a winding road parallel to the Segura River, which was strangely familiar to me despite being the first time I visited. Arriving in...
Duero wines: emergence, tradition, and diversity
I came to find Duero Wine Fest, the festival of celebration of wines made by the Duero River in the NW of Spain in a bizarre way: after reading negative comments on social networks about the low presence of women in the program. I who never went on quotas commented...
Saddle restaurant: from a splendid past to a promising future
Saddle restaurant, opened in October 2019, is heir to the legendary Jockey restaurant, the first luxury restaurant in Madrid founded in 1945 by Arsenio Martínez Campos y de la Viesca, a Spanish high society politician, as related by his great-granddaughter Veronica:...
On a road trip through the Spanish ecological map
There was an uncontained joy in the environment and very special energy. It was the first time in a long time that exhibitors participating in Organic Food Iberia left their virtual bubble to participate in a brick-and-mortar fair. Those fairs in which samples of wine...
Rice from Aragon, a high-altitude product
Not many know that Aragon, the Northeast under the radar Spanish region, has been producing rice since the 19th century. Although, indeed, its cultivation is quite a testimonial. Around 4,500 hectares compared to other communities such as Delta del Ebro, Valencia,...