Blame what on Rioja?
Friday, November 17th, 2006Welcome to BLAME IT ON RIOJA, a new wine blog dedicated exclusively to Spain’s premier quality winemaking region—its products, personalities, landscape, and history.
Uncork a Rioja crianza, let the fruity and seductive Tempranillo grape nudge your senses, and join me on an insider’s tour of one of the world’s richest epicurean enclaves.
Commisioned by the region itself, BLAME IT ON RIOJA is nevertheless a highly personal enterprise: a practical guide to a region in flux as seen through the eyes of a working sommelier, opinionated journalist, and unreformed lifetime Riojaphile.
About that last part, allow me a moment to elaborate.
I’ve nurtured an obsession for Rioja wines since my days as a student in Madrid in the early 1990s, but it took an impromptu detour to Rioja in the late 1990s to seal the deal.
Over a plate of wild partridge and a glass of young Rioja in the summer of 1998, my food and wine worldview would be rocked forever. (more…)
