If you already know and love Barcelona, and want to expand your horizons, here's the perfect itinerary for your first twenty-four hours in Catalunya, featuring Figueres.
Meet Joan Rubió, maker of Cal Tiques wines that vibrate and get under your skin with minerality while fresh acidity lifts you and flavors linger long. A Penedès gem!
I always tack on some days before and/or after a work trip. So finally, before heading to Priorat, I ticked another off the bucket list: The Teatro-Museo Dalí in Figueres, Spain. SALVADOR DALÍ WAS A GENIUS!
Back in May I started a new collaboration with Pinch My Spice and Moishe Mayer that I just love: #WineandspicE. WE. Three professionals—one devoted to food, another to wine, and me to everything—creating content that has been overwhelmingly well-received.
Our second run in less than a year, Bush Terminal bourbon is back on the shelves! It’s a badass bourbon brand created in Brooklyn by yours truly in collaboration with Fort Hamilton Distillery.
Structure: a way to describe a wine’s components in the mouth considering fruit concentration, level of sweetness, acidity, tannin, and alcohol. This is where my head was when developing a brand for a random barrel of Tannat that winemaker extraordinaire Josh Klapper offered up.
I’d always dug what I knew of Emidio Pepe, but upon being with the family and understanding their beautifully simple philosophies of farming and winemaking, well, it’s amore.