Posts Tagged ‘Rioja’

ARTADI TASTING

Jun
2013
14

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Last week we were joined by Carlos Lopez de Lacaille of top Rioja producer, Artadi, for a fantastic tasting of their wines. We’ve been importing in Artadi’s wines for several years now but this was the first chance we’d had to welcome a member of the family behind them to guide us through the range. It [...]

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La Rioja Alta S.A. is one of the most renowned producers of traditionally-styled Rioja, with a history dating back well over a century. Originally founded as the Sociedad Vinicola De La Rioja Alta in 1890 by five viticultural families of the Basque and Rioja regions, the name was soon changed to simply La Rioja Alta. [...]

Rioja Tasting

Nov
2012
01

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This week we had our final tasting for the year before taking apart the tasting area to make room for silly season shenanigans. The tasting was the last, but also a first for us. For some reason, we’ve never gotten around to putting together a line up of top flight Rioja before and this tasting [...]

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Our latest container just arrived, jam-packed full of wine from France, Italy and Spain. It’s always exciting landing a new container and replenishing our stocks of interesting European wines. We went a bit mad in the warehouse and photographed a few of the new things in store. There’s a heap of wines including old favourites [...]