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3rd July 2024 MUSTIGUILLO PRESENTS ITS MOST RECENT NEW WINE, ‘PELA ROQUES BLANCO’ 2022 AND THE NEW VINTAGE OF ‘MESTIZAJE BLANCO’ 2023 AT ‘MI CUB’
This week, Toni Sarrión unveiled his new product ‘Pela Roques white 2022’ and the new vintage of his successful Mestizaje blanco together with Miguel Donat from Voravins at ‘Mi Cub’, the coolest place to enjoy the best wines of the Valencian Community in the Mercado de Colón. Both creations come from the vineyards that Bodega […]
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25th December 2023 VALENCIA CAVA
Valencia’s Bubbles just right for the festive season! What better way to celebrate with Valencia’s very own Cava? Valencian Cava? Well, yes! A brief history of Cava Historically Cava was a sparkling wine made in Cataluña, the word meaning cave or cellar in which the first wines were stored and made. Josep Raventós (Cordoniu) is […]
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13th July 2023 ‘MI CUB’ ORGANISES A WINE TASTING BY ‘VORAVINS’ TO DISTINGUISH THE LAST TWO VINTAGES OF ‘MESTIZAJE BLANCO’
Mi Cub, the only gastronomic market space where you can eat freshly made products from the market itself, organised a comparative tasting with Voravins to distinguish two vintages of the same wine: Mestizaje Blanco (2021 and 2022). The aim of all the wineries, once they have achieved the wine they want, is to try to […]
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19th October 2022 TASTING OF VERMUTS
This month we were lucky enough to have attended a tasting of Vermuts from across Spain, at Verema, to whose ADN guide to wines we are contributors. There are several new styles of Vermut emerging and it was interesting to note the moves away from the totally traditional style. Dos Deus Origíns White Vermut. Cellers […]
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22nd July 2022 TASTING FRENCH WINES IN VALENCIA
For some time VÍ Vid has maintained an interest in the wines of the Languedoc Roussillon in Southern France. The problem has been the availability of the wines in Spain but the last two to three years has seen a number of new importers and distributors adding French wines in general and wines from the […]
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17th February 2022 VALENCIAN WINES AT ‘MI CUB’ IN THE EMBLEMATIC ‘MERCADO DE COLÓN’
#Aside from being an iconic example of art nouveau architecture in Valencia, and a national monument, Mercado de Colón is best known for its many fine restaurants. One of Mercado Colón’s fine eateries is ‘Mi Cub’, an open-air tapas bar and restaurant. Located on the first floor of the market, the gastronomic terrace serves high-quality […]
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16th February 2022 ‘THE WINE PLACE’ IN VALENCIA…
On a corner of Almirante Cadarso, a stone’s throw away from the emblematic ‘Mercado de Colón’ in Valencia , is a charming wine store called ‘The Wine Place’. The collection on offer is spectacular, with wines from all over the world, even the less typical spots, such as Lebanon. The store is also the location […]
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11th June 2021 VALENCIA WINES…TONI SARRIÓN, PRESENTS IN ‘MI CUB’ (MERCADO DE COLÓN) THE LATEST VINTAGE OF MESTIZAJE BLANCO
##TONI SARRIÓN, PRESENTS IN ‘MI CUB’ THE LATEST VINTAGE OF MESTIZAJE BLANCO: REGENERATIVE VITICULTURE OF A GENEROUS HARVEST DUE TO THE PANDEMIC. – Mustiguillo only uses its own grapes, so if there is no good harvest the 35 countries that receive its wines would miss some bottles. – Their land uses compost from its own […]
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13th February 2021 SIX WINES FROM VALENCIA AND SEVEN CHAMPAGNES
This month we look at six wines from DO Valencia and seven Champagnes from Taittinger. DO Valencia. DO Valencia covers the parts of the province not covered by DO Utiel-Requena and DO Cava. Alicante and Castellon have their own controlling bodies. It is split into a number of sub-zones which cover the area from Xativa […]
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12th February 2021 A LOOK AT THE NEW WINES FROM ‘VICENTE GANDIA’ …PIONEER OF QUALITY WINES FROM THE VALENCIAN COMMUNITY
Bodegas Vicente Gandía was founded well over 100 years ago. Then, their main interest was exporting wines from their premises in the ‘Grao’ in Valencia, founded during the golden age of the railway when transporting wines from Utiel-Requena and elsewhere took off. More lately, they moved a lot of their operations to the giant plant […]
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