A critical moment: the risk of frost
Budding and bud break on the vines is already a fact and we are entering one of the most dangerous stages for vineyard cultivation: spring frosts. These are usually early…
Budding and bud break on the vines is already a fact and we are entering one of the most dangerous stages for vineyard cultivation: spring frosts. These are usually early…
The graciano grape is a variety native to Rioja and Navarra, with little implantation in other Spanish wine-growing areas. Its historical presence in Rioja translates into a 'secondary' role as…
One of the great challenges of world viticulture is the fight against the so-called wood diseases, which have been described as the 'cancer of the vineyard'. In France, the number…
Winter is coming to an end and the plant, the vine, is starting to come 'alive' again. In some vineyards you can already see the first 'weeping', which is actually…
The 2010 vintage was the fourth excellent one of the 21st century for the Control Board of the Rioja Qualified Designation of Origin (previously 2001, 2004 and 2005). The Rioja…
Tim Atkin, master of wine and the first international prescriptor who dared to make a classification of Rioja wineries, published last January his second monographic report, Rioja Special Report 2017,…
The so-called 'law of the pendulum' has numerous applications, from politics to human history. Basically it is saying that motion is cyclic and that when something approaches one extreme it…
We are not saying anything outrageous if we refer to the wine sector as one of the most innovative in the world. The extraordinary competition and atomization of wineries and…
Last month we dedicated an entry in this space to Familia Martínez Bujanda wines as a gift option for Christmas, with an extraordinary versatility of offer for different profiles... and…