Former Manchester city star counts cost of fire at his Spanish vineyard
“A fire is always terrifying because it kills everything around it and the feeling is just awful. The feeling, the smoke, the smell ... There’s a sense of total destruction,”
Beauty Queen held after 1.7 million euro wine theft in Spain
Police investigators believe the woman, a 29-year-old Mexican, who according to Spanish daily El Pais had competed in a beauty pageant in her homeland, distracted El Atrio waiters by ordering room service from the Michelin-starred restaurant after its kitchen had closed.
Food and wine
Famous sauce is really a dish
Romescu is almost certainly one of Spain’s most famous sauces, used mainly for fish although it also pairs nicely with some meats, especially rabbit.
Food and wine
Why albariños are such super wines
The albariño grape is now one of the area’s main agricultural products and it makes an important contribution to the local economy.
Food & Wine
Sun-dried tomatoes are great on flavour
The Italians were the first to dry tomatoes in the sun and as it is such an easy and efficient way of preserving them until the next summer’s crop, the custom of sun-dried tomatoes soon spread throughout the Mediterranean.
Where Gastronomy Meets Centuries Of Tradition
There is more to Majorca than just the sun and the sea, in fact Majorca is good enough to eat.
Majorca
What's on in Majorca: 21-27 November
The mushroom season in Majorca is the excuse for Mancor de la Vall's Fira de l'Esclatasang, which starts on Friday with a non-fungal demons' fire-run. "Nouveau" in a Majorcan style is recognised in the wine town of Santa Maria. Rice is the theme of Sa Pobla's autumn fair, and the 26th Es Refugi Christmas charity market is at Palma's La Misericordia from Thursday.
Agriculture
Wine producers forecasting an excellent harvest
Unlike other cultivators, the wine producers have no particular issue with the water shortage. Indeed the lack of water can improve quality.
Wine
Binissalem wines will be of high quality this year
"A lot obviously depends on the weather. It was a dry winter but the rains over the past few weeks have been welcome."
Wine
Balearic wine drinkers spend more than other Spaniards
The average annual amount spent on wine in the Balearics is 153.8 euros per annum.
Wine
Majorcan wine is more expensive than Rioja overseas
Sales of Balearic wine abroad this year had (by the end of November) a value of 7.4 million euros.
Wine
ESRA South East visit to Can Pico vineyard
Can Pico has been gently nurtured, and the vineyard now produces quantities of dry white, sweet and fortified Malvasia wines.
Agriculture
Grape harvest quality not threatened by rain
Growers are optimistic, however, that wind which picked up as a result of the storm will have helped to dry the vines.