Ricardo's Blog

  Spring has well and truly sprung, Fallas has been over for all of a week and so Valencia is searching for something else to celebrate! And what better than its food and wine, described this morning at the Press Conference of PROAVA, by its President Eduardo Mestres as the best food and wine in the world bar none! PROAVA, or Promoción Agroalimentaria de Calidad de la ComunidadValencia, is the

`Els Bodeguers´, the association of the independent wine and spirits shops of the Valencian Community hold their annual tasting just prior to the Annual Wine Fair in the dry river bed in Valencia which starts on Wednesday evening. This years prizes  have been awarded to the following:- Young Whites: First Prize Bocopa, Marina Alta 2010 DO Alicante. Second prize, Francisco Gomez, Fruto Noble 2010

[caption id="attachment_684" align="alignleft" width="220" caption="The Logo for the New Association."][/caption]  Bobal, Utiel-Requena´s very own grape, unique to the region and potentially one of the most versatile quality producing varieties in the world  now has its own `quality mark´. Thursday 10 March saw the launch of the new association `Primum Bobal´which has been created by seven of the