A curated journal & newsletter from Spain's boutique wineries
Una copa is Spanish for “a glass”, and that's the spirit of it. A short, carefully chosen journal and newsletter with insight straight from the boutique Spanish wineries we work with: the growers, their villages and vineyards, the grapes Spain forgot and the traditions it never did.
Clarete: the pale wine Britain named, then forgot
Long before "claret" meant red Bordeaux, it meant a pale, bright wine. In one Rioja village they never stopped making it. Iván del Río explains clarete — and why it belongs on your table.
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ProducerAtaraxia: two brothers, one village and no hurry
Koldo and Joseba García Quintana grew up selling their family's grapes to other people. Now they bottle them, one parcel at a time. A portrait of Área Pequeña and the village of Labastida.
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Grape schoolOld-vine Viura: two villages, two white Riojas
Viura was written off for decades as Rioja's bulk white. Two of our growers make it from old single vineyards, in two very different villages. Here's what to look for — and what to eat with it.
What's in a glass
Straight from the people who make the wine.
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From the growers
Portraits of the boutique bodegas we work with, in their own words: why they farm the way they do, and what they're trying to say with each parcel.
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Grapes & places
Old-vine Viura, Garnacha at altitude, the clarete of Cordovín — the grapes, villages and traditions that rarely make it onto a UK wine list.
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Vineyard & cellar
Harvest notes, film from the vineyard and the occasional recipe — what the year actually looks like in the vineyard.
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