Wine tasting in Valencia
Wine tasting in Valencia
Have you ever done a wine tasting? I hope you didn't have to spit out the wine.... we don't do that here! Apart from learning something about wine, a wine tasting should be fun, and spitting out wine is no fun at all, and absolutely unnecessary if you taste only 3-4-5 …
The Utiel-Requena wine region
The Utiel-Requena wine region
If you leave the city of Valencia and go direction Madrid, into the interior, you’ll get to the wine region of Utiel-Requena, at about 70 kms from the coast. The region gets its name from its two main villages, Utiel and Requena. Because of its long history of wine …
Accessible Valencia
Accessible Valencia
Valencia has become a very popular tourist destination in recent years, and rightly so: it has a lot to offer in terms of beautiful historical buildings, spectacular modern architecture, like Calatrava’s City of Arts and Science , great beaches, a cosy old centre with many …
The wines of Valencia
Valencia is known worldwide for its oranges, but its long days of warm sun and position next to the Mediterranean Sea also make it an ideal place for growing grapes. Generally speaking, Valencian wines tend to be intense, with body, structure and a relatively high alcohol content. Within the …
The wines of the DOP Valencia
We continue with our series on the Wines of Valencia, and this time we look at the region closest to Valencia city, the DOP Valencia, which is divided into four sub-regions. We discuss the differences between the sub-regions, grape varieties, and give examples of wines to look for when you’re in …
The wines of Castellón
We continue our series on the wines of Valencia with Castellón, the region just north of the city of Valencia. Despite Castellón’s long and interesting history of wine production, it is now only an “upcoming wine region”, but one with some interesting wines worth trying.
Castellón is not (yet) a …
The Grape Harvest tour
The grape harvest in Spain usually starts sometime in August, and continues until October, depending on the region and the year. In most wine tours you are shown the winery, and you would taste some of the wines they make; we decided to offer people the opportunity to participate in grape picking, …