Barcelona Wine Week dispatches: five under-the-radar Spanish producers worth finding
Jason Wilson’s Barcelona Wine Week report surfaces five new-to-him discoveries worth tracking: Julia Casado’s bright, fresh 100% monastrell from D.O. Bullas (light years from jammy southern Spain); El Hato y El Garabato’s 100-year-old Doña Blanca vines from the tiny Arribes appellation; a complex, textured txakoli from Iturregi aged in chestnut cask; Jiménez-Landi’s elegant garnacha from Sierra de Gredos; and Art Laietà’s mineral-driven pansa blanca from Spain’s smallest DO, Alella. Plus Barcelona wine bar recs — Masa, Bar Canyí, Vertical, and PetNat. Via Everyday Drinking. Read more