06/06/2023
Yesterday I had the chance to take part in the Semifinal Competition organised by Ramón Bilbao Winery (based in Spain). 🏞️
The competition took place in London, in my own living room (😊) through a Zoom Video and it was great. ❤️
It really looked like a real competition, with a jury formed of Rodolfo Bastida, Sara Bañuelos y Pedro Ballesteros MW and presenter Elisa Errea.
The questions were really difficult, very creative and the 5 wines from the blind tasting quite hard to guess(I’d like to say guess but it’s more like..know them/ study/ analyse)
The intruiging captivating music was there, the precise timing and …50 participants all together.
Only 10 participants were going to take part in the final competition, winning the big prize and having a chance to create a wine in collaboration with Rodolfo Bastida, the chief winemaker of Ramon Bilbao.
Unfortunately I was not one of them, but I can totally recommend this competition. ( now at their 6th edition)
Spanish Wine Master was really well organised, educational, challenging and addressed for those people who want to gain more knowledge about Spanish wines.
Meanwhile, just a reminder how great and complex Spanish wines are and.. ¡Salud!🇪🇸
10/05/2023
A lot has happened in the last 4 weeks, so then I decided to take a total break from social media, which I actually recommend (from time to time)
The irony of saying this on social media...🤭
17-19th April I had the chance to visit the Bierzo and Ribeira del Duero wine regions in Spain, together with people who share the love for wine and who also work within the wine industry in UK.
But for the last three weeks I dedicated my whole time studying and preparing for the Wines of the world exam.
This exam is split into two parts, a theory paper and a blind tasting consisting of 12 wines.
I have to say that you can easily go crazy. You're simply ignoring anything else while you're trying to understand every grape variety, different appellations, DOCs, DOCGs (btw Italy why so many?!) DACs, AVAs etc.
I even came up with some new names for some of these regions and today at the tasting I probably placed some outstanding styles of wines in the wrong regions. Who knows? 🤷♀️
The results will be available in 13 weeks so I imagine sitting on a beach (or just in London, on my way to work while outside is pouring with rain) and find out I failed. Or not.
It would be pretty bad to find this out but I would take a deep breath, travel to Italy, ask them to stop with that nonsense and re-sit the exam. (Just kidding, Italy is grreeaat! 😛)
I feel that I just scratched the surface, there is so much more to be read, seen or told 🍇🙃
25/02/2023
"The perfect is the enemy of good"
So, if you can't achieve perfection, don't sweat it. Go for good instead. Gretchen Rubin described it this way:
Instead of pushing yourself to an impossible "perfect,' and therefore getting nowhere, accept "good.' Many things worth doing are worth doing badly."
Perfection is a pipe dream. As Psychology Today explained, ""perfect' may exist as a concept," but it's not a reality. After all, its definition is entirely subjective. "Achieving perfection" is entirely a judgment call, depending on who's trying to achieve it and who's watching"
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Therefore, my first attempt at having a
[Wine Blog / page ( God I'm old)/ Instagram( although I'm struggling using it and probably I'll need a Instagram for dummies book)
But NOT Tik/Tok!! ( although Janis Robinson mentioned it's a thing and wine invaded this popular video-sharing terrain) /Or ANY other form of social website]....
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it's here! 🤷♀️😀
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25/10/2022