Proyecto Las Compuertas Cinco Suelos 2021, a 100% Malbec from Luján de Cuyo, Mendoza. Its name, Cinco Suelos (“five plots”) comes from the five different areas the grapes are harvested from. The wine undergoes a cold maceration for four days, and an eight months maturation in concrete eggs. It’s a medium body, medium alcohol (13,1%),…
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Sohm Kracher Lion 2020, a 100% Grüner Veltliner from the Kracher winery in Niederösterreich. A pale lemon color, medium intensity nose, with freshly cut hay, lemon, a bit of grapefruit, peach, pear, rosemary, and green apple aromas. On the palate everything is also medium: acidity
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Doña Leo, from Altolandon winery in the Manchuela DO, is a white wine made with Muscat Blanc à Petits Grains variety. With a beautiful deep-yellow color, it has a fragrant nose with pear, melon, pineapple, orange blossom, rose and elderflower. While all this fruit and flower aromas
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Second part of the wine pairing at Restaurante OSA. Pictured: Domaine François Raveneau Chablis Premier Cru Forêt, 2020, Chardonnay. Monteraponi Baron’ Ugo, Toscana Rosso, Chianti Classico, 2015, Sangiovese
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First part of the wine pairing with the long menu at Restaurante OSA, one of the best I’ve ever had. Pictured:
Côtes du Jura Domaine Macle, Jura AOC, 2015, Savagnin and Chardonnay. Amos Banyeres Vinya Oculta, Alt Penedès, 2021, Xarel∙lo. Thibaud Boudignon Clos de Frémine, Savennières, Anjou, 2020, Chenin blanc
A few weeks ago we had an outstanding experience dining at Restaurante OSA in Madrid. Five hours of enjoyment, discovery, and experience, where all five senses were involved, adding to them the sense of humour and the power to recall memories through what you are eating and drinking.
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This orange wine is neither an ordinary one, nor whatever image you have of what an orange wine should be. This is a 100% Malvazija from Istria, harvested in 2018 in Goriska Brda, Slovenia (neighbouring the Italian Collio region, on the other side of the border), and produced by
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A tasting of exceptional Jura wines at Vila Viniteca. Fun, informative, sometimes introspective, given the amount of sensations these wines would reveal. A very special tasting indeed. This is what we tasted. Domaine Berthet-Bondet Crémant du Jura Brut Nature. 70% Chardonnay and 30% Savagnin, with a noticeable body and both saline
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Casa Sosegada 2020, by Rafael Cambra. A blend of Monastrell with a few nearly forgotten autoctonous grapes (Arco, Forcallat, Bonicaire, Rojal) from Southern Valencia. It welcomes you with a remarkable medicinal cabinet aroma, soon giving way to ripe raspberries, redcurrant, ripe red cherries, lush plums, black pepper, fresh herbs
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