Taking the world one wine at a time.
You and a friend are being sent to a deserted island for 6 months…for reasons known only to you! Luckily you are allowed 3 wines to take with you. Which 3 wines do you choose?
(Let’s also say that you have a way of keeping white wines chilled.)
Below is a really handy guide to how Spanish wines are classified, in terms of the minimum length of time they’ve spent in the barrel/bottle. Since terms such as Crianza and Reserva will frequently appear on bottles of red Rioja, but are infrequently explained, it’s useful to remember their definitions! I have a simple mantra I learnt many years ago in order to memorize the length of time red Rioja’s are aged for. It is…