Today I start my blog, the result of my passion for a product as Mediterranean as it gets- WINE- and, to be exact, Catalan wine. Wine culture is in my blood, something I grew up with. When I was a child, my father used to make his own wine, my grandparents used to make theirs and although they later stopped making it, by then winemaking was grafted on me.
Add to the above-mentioned all my pleasant memories of
drinking different types of wine - their appearance, their characteristic
aromas and flavours on the palate, how the wines change with the passing of
time - all this has led me to start a new project, a passionate project, with
the big challenge of making these wines known to the world. I know Catalonia is
small area on the world map, a little country, but it has an incredibly diverse
geography and great wines in every quality wine producing area (Denominació d’Origen in Catalan, or its
abbreviated form DO, all of them different and with special characteristics
than make the wine different and particular to that area.
The first great challenge is to decide which wine I
start with, because there are so many to choose from..., but finally I've
decided on a cava (known also as a sparkling wine). In fact I don't need to go
far away to find it, I can stay at home, where I am, because there is a great
little winery next to home. It’s a little cellar because their production is
limited, but a great place also because of the quality of their products; the
care they take in the elaboration of the wine and the enthusiasm they put into
their work can be tasted in every sip.
The passion for this cava started on Christmas day, at
lunch time, with the family. All of us used to sit around the big table of the
dining room, the table for special occasions, and it was the perfect
opportunity for opening the cava that our neighbours gave us as a Christmas
present: DG Viticultors Rosé.
