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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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Tagged Abadengo, agriculture, Arribes, Castilla y Leon, countryside, documentary, ecology, economics, environment, farming, food, green, history, rural, rural landscape, Sayago, Spain, sustainability, urban planning, vino, wine, Zamora
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Life on the Douro in California and Toronto
Life on the Douro screenings in Los Angeles, San Francisco and at the Toronto Portuguese Film Festival and Paso Robles Film Festival Life on the Douro will be screening in LA and San Francisco on November 15 and 17, repsectively, … Continue reading
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Tagged California, documentary, Douro, film, history, Los Angeles, Port, Portugal, San Francisco, Toronto, wine
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On Perception
My interview with Tim Hanni, MW, seemed to have resonated with a lot of people, demystifying certain questions about the subjectivity of taste and perception in wine. What he said made a lot of sense to me as a non-wine … Continue reading
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Tagged art, perception, Rembrandt, subjectivity, taste, Tim Hanni MW, Vermeer, visual, wine
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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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Tagged catavino, Dinastia Vivanco, Douro, grapes, history, La Rioja, Portugal, Quevedo, Rioja, social media, Spain, varietals, wine, wine blogging, winery
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