The Wine on Wednesday

• Bodegas y Viñedos de Ponce Manchuela – I recently spent a few days in La Mancha, the world’s largest vineyard with over 150 thousand hectares of vines. To put it in perspective, La Mancha has more land under vines than all of Australia. At one time it was the source of much uninspiring bulk wine or distilled into brandy, but there are […]
• FOUR NEW SHERRIES FROM O’BRIENS – O’Briens recently introduced some great wines from two exciting Sherry producers. Both are family-owned with a long and noble history. More importantly, both produce some great wines. Bodegas Barón was founded in 1895 by Manuel Barón Fernández. His wife’s family had been involved in the sherry business for ten generations, so they could claim to […]
• FOUR SPANISH WHITE WINES – Four wines this week; all were in the running to feature in an Irish Times article I wrote last Saturday, but for various reasons (price, availability, late arrivals) did not make it to the final four. It was not because they weren’t good enough, so this week four great white wines all from lesser-known regions […]