Steve and Kathy’s Excellent Adventure in España…
From May 18 to June 1, Steve (buyer, newsletter co-author/editor) and Kathy (wife, CFO), two of the principals at Winex, were on a wine related trip to Spain. The basic program was a trip with a specific importer (Olé) visiting various wine regions and estates in their portfolio sandwiched between two brief recreational soirees. The journey towards the journey started two years earlier. Kathy, who became something of a history junkie after seeing the historic Chinon Castle (famous for being a Templar prison, and for where Joan of Arc identified the dauphin and Richard the Lion Hearted died), decided she wanted to go to Spain. She had added seeing the famous Moorish palace, the Alhambra, to her ‘bucket list.’ When the opportunity arose to fold that into an exploratory trip of a new group of up and coming Spanish producers (Kathy had never been to Spain, Steve only once in 2000), ‘it was on.’ Over the following blogs we will chronicle our trip and share some general impressions about the wines, food, hotels, and who knows what else?
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