Envinate Palo Blanco – Wow
2 August 2023
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Envinate’s Palo Blanco 2021 from Tenerife is amazing!
Category: Spain
Do you miss Burgundy?
1 May 2023
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Taganan 2020 from Envinate on Tenerife is a great wine for those who can no longer afford Burgundy.
Plaited pleasure
27 August 2022
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After my last tasting note of Envinate’s Benje Blanco 2020, we are back on the volcanic island of Tenerife to try Trenzado 2020 from Suertes del Marques; another wine …
Benje Blanco 2020 – slap in face
22 August 2022
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Benje Blanco 2020 from Envinate is not a wine for people who only like New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc. Nor is it going to charm those who like their Chardonnays …
Four fellows with fine wine
12 August 2017
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The idea was to try a few wines of greater maturity than I normally open and save a bit for The Editor and I and our enlightened guests to …
Hawksmoor three years on
20 February 2016
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On Monday night we returned, with our excellent friend Ricard, to Hawksmoor Spitalfields in London for the first time in three years. There was a time where nearly 10% …
Fine wine frolics at Ben’s Canteen
1 February 2013
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I hope you will forgive me if this is not my longest or most coherent article, things got a bit quaquaversal in the early hours of this morning. However, …
A rather good gift
5 October 2012
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I was sent this bottle as a gift by a generous reader – thanks! He clearly realised my historical loathing for Rioja has, like the old wines I’m growing …
Pleasures of the flesh with Ricard and Dani
25 April 2012
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The charming Ricard Sariola joined Dani and I to celebrate St George’s day with a wing rib of beef. Roast beef is about as English as things get and …
A natural wine
15 March 2012
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Some may recall, on my post about natural wine, a brief discussion with Fabio of Vinos Ambiz in which he agreed to send me a bottle of his wine …