By Andrew McCarthy, Bodegas Castro Martin, http://bodegascastromartin.com/blog/
I apologise for the delay in this last post of the 2011 harvest, but I do have a good excuse…. I was not here! The last day of picking was conducted without me as I flew off for an important Trans-Atlantic appointment – more of that tomorrow.
In the meantime my …
By Andrew McCarthy, Bodegas Castro Martin, http://bodegascastromartin.com/blog/
With the 2011 harvest in Galicia starting earlier than ever, we take a look at the harvest highlights from the last few weeks at Bodegas Castro Martin in Spain’s Albarino country. Below is Day 1 and 2, in a series of 3 posts, as owner Andrew McCarthy blogged his way through the 2011 harvest.
Vintage of the …
By Andrew McCarthy, Bodegas Castro Martin, http://bodegascastromartin.com/blog/
As we arrive closer to harvest time with every day that passes, so we spend our days collecting and analysing grape samples. Of course the objective of this exercise is quite simple – to decide the optimum time to start picking.
On face value this might appear to be a very simple, straightforward task, but the reality …
By Andrew McCarthy, Bodegas Castro Martin, http://castromartin.blogspot.com/
So far, the month of July has been cool and cloudy. Lots of overcast days, odd spots of sunshine, but also quite a lot of mist and drizzle – just in time for the Galician tourist season that starts to gather momentum at the beginning of the month. The significant point is that, despite …
By Andrew McCarthy, Bodegas Castro Martin, http://castromartin.blogspot.com/
There has been a lot of press recently about the price of wine and the ability of consumers to distinguish between good wine and cheap ‘plonk’. As a wine professional I do hope that my own palate allows …
By Andrew McCarthy, Bodegas Castro Martin, http://castromartin.blogspot.com/
When you stop to think how many wine bottles are opened during the course of a year, and how many different shapes, sizes and colours there are, you have to ask yourself why does it take a Spanish chef to come up with a creative and innovative design?
The three-starred Michelin chef Martin Berasategui has won the packaging equivalent of …
By Bodegas Castro Martin, http://castromartin.blogspot.com/
Now, I have been tasting wine for much longer than I care to remember, and at the peak of my wine buying career I would easily sample 100+ wines a day. Today the demand on my tastebuds is much more restrained, and often limited to tasting a couple of dozen tanks in our own cellar (which I do with Angela on a pretty regular …
