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 have not stopped opening new paths to get our…
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 a large river running through the city. This fact…
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 when designing Leña”, a restaurant dedicated to…
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 in the Peñín Guide. And the…
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 going to be the…
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 this town overlooking an…
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 that perhaps it was…