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    España el Especial (Part 2: Boar Sausages and Kittens at Els Jelepins)
    Christina Pickard
    • Jan 6, 2012
    • 3 min

    España el Especial (Part 2: Boar Sausages and Kittens at Els Jelepins)

    Meet Glòria Garriga. Agricultural engineer. Single mother. And winemaker extraordinaire. How she manages everything is anyone’s guess, but she seems to do it all with flying colours. Gloria and some of her sun-dried grapes. They were delicious to munch on! Whitney and I visited Glòria on one dark rainy night back in November.  She was working and performing motherly pick-up/drop-off duties during the day but invited us for a tasting in the evening.  We met her and her daughte
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    España el Especial  (Part 1: Priorat)
    Christina Pickard
    • Nov 8, 2011
    • 4 min

    España el Especial (Part 1: Priorat)

    Ah Spain. How do I being to summarise my travels in a country that has more of its land covered in vines than anywhere in the world?  A country that has been dubbed the sleeping giant of the wine world, just waking up from a self-imposed slumber?  All I can do is give you my impressions, based on my 8 packed days visiting 9 winemakers with my dear friend Whitney in some of Spain’s most famous wine regions. Our route (map courtesy of Whitney Adams) First of all, to say that Sp
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