Tag Archives: Spain

Arribes: This Is Also The Future

How exotic to see a pig being cut open with its intestines still hot and steamy. The smell cannot penetrate the screen, but anyone who has witnessed a pig slaughter knows how thick and warm it is, blending in with the stench of scorched skin. How awful to see a knife stuck in the pig’s throat, bleeding into a bucket to be used for blood sausages, and then its innards being pulled out. Continue reading

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What I’ve been doing lately

Over the last year or so, I have visited some 20 different wine regions in Spain, travelling over 15,000 kilometres (10,000 miles), accumulating 180+ hours of material, including many fascinating interviews on the history, evolution and culture of wine. Not … Continue reading

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EWBC 2009 and catavino.net

European Wine Bloggers Conference 2009 from Zev Robinson on Vimeo. I went to the European Wine Bloggers Conference 2009 in Lisbon, Portugal to film material for a series of documentaries on wine as culture, history, and economics that I have … Continue reading

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