By Rob Pickard
Over the last few weeks we’ve been having a sort out of the many thousands of images we have on file here in the marketing department. With so many producers and so many keen Bibendumites eager to visit these wine producing regions, we’ve over the years accumulated a huge array of winery and vineyard pics.
Big fans of wine and all …
Dinastia Vivanco use some of the latest technology in their expansive winery, alongside traditional winemaking techniques, creating fruit driven, bright, bold, modern Rioja. Beautifully balanced, with ripe red fruit, spicy oak and smooth, rustic tannins, this is the ideal wine to cheer on Mr Jimenez. Cigars optional!
It’s going to be a hot Easter, full of cloudless blue skies and the smell of barbecued lamb fat. Bliss. I recommend a butterflied leg rubbed with the holy trinity of garlic, rosemary and thyme and chucked on the coals until the outside chars and the inside is a juicy pink. It’s not the weather for roast tatties and mint sauce, but some punchy tzatziki and some flatbreads will go down a treat.
by Gareth Groves
The Vivancos have been one of the most prominent and interesting families in Rioja over the last 50 years.
Their history caught the imagination of filmaker Zev Robinson who has made a documentary telling the family’s story, entitled ‘Dinastia Vivanco: Giving back to wine what wine has given to us’.
Zev has organised a …
By Rob Pickard
On arriving at Dinastia Vivanco we were given a tour of the 500 hectares of vineyards (producing a massive 1 million litres of wine), the extensive cellars, and dozens of impressive 16,000 litre French oak vats. But what really stood out at Vivanco’s huge complex just outside the small town of Briones, was their amazing Museum of Wine Culture.
If I’m totally honest, …
By Beren-Dain Delbrooke-Jones, Q Hotels
The Journey There
The journey had a sense of a sleepy otherworld, seven strangers from across the country congregating in the easyJet lobby at Stanstead International in the wee hours. Shuffling through the terminal and aboard the Spain-bound plane, the anticipation of what was to come, what was to be seen and tasted was latent behind sleepy faces. Sleepy faces were soon …
By Bibendumtimes
Barrels socialising at Dinastia Vivanco
Here at Bibendum we feel that wine and social media are a match made in heaven. We love wine and enjoy nothing better than talking about it to anyone else who shares our enthusiasm. It doesn’t matter to us where this conversation takes place; at events or with our customers, on …
We’ve reached a crucial stage in the build up (why build up, but count down? Oh well…) to the UK’s largest wine event in the calendar, the London International Wine fair (LIWF), next week at Excel. The integrity of our pants is under threat from the sheer anticipation. Seriously! If we can negotiate this tricky stage then it will be plain sailing from then on won’t it…?
But why …
