Author: Neeru Khan

The Parador del Albariño, in the Pontevedra town of Cambados, hosted yesterday this Sunday the final of the Rías Baixas Albariño 2020 Tasting Contest, a traditional contest -this year the thirty-third edition has been held- to which a total of forty-five have participated. nine wines, three more samples than in the previous edition. Some wines that have been evaluated by a jury made up of twenty-two experts, made up of ten members of the internal tasting panel of the Regulatory Council itself and an external panel, selected exclusively for the contest. The best albariños of the 2020 vintage And the…

The Mediterranean diet is based on vegetable products, bread and other cereals, olive oil as the main fat and the regular consumption of wine in moderate quantities. And also table olives, the origin of olive oil, are one of the essential components of this traditionally Spanish diet and are part of our cultural and gastronomic heritage.The origins of the olive tree go back far back in history, a thousand-year-old tree that spread widely throughout the Mediterranean area, encompassing Europe, Africa and Asia Minor, and of great importance for the Phoenician, Roman and Arab peoples since, from a In the beginning,…

The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food has developed a new tool that allows intuitive and interactive access to all the data on exports and imports of the agri-food and fishing sector necessary to carry out foreign trade operations. The new tool, which is now available, will be of great use for the sector as a whole, given the growing potential of foreign trade, which is being one of the fundamental engines of the dynamic agri-food and fishing sector, even in the most complicated moments such as the last months affected by the crisis sanitary. An interactive foreign trade report…

The harvest in DO Penedès will be lower than in previous years – Photo DO Penedès The lack of rain will condition the 2021 harvest in the Penedès Denomination of Origin: it is expected that healthy grapes will be harvested, although the amount of grapes will be lower than the average of previous years due to this lack of rainfall, which has characterized the meteorology of the last months in the territory. Compared to the 2020 harvest, deeply marked by the mildew problems that affected it a lot, this year it will not be affected by this disease, mainly due…

The province of Jaén is a great destination to practice oleotourism and gastronomy, with one of a varied offer related to the majestic landscape of the olive grove, with its gastronomy and olive oil, a food without which it is impossible to conceive of Mediterranean gastronomy . The oils from Jaén – world leader in the production of the highest quality extra virgin – come for the most part from Picual olives and are fruity, with notes of green aromas of fresh grass and vegetables, slightly bitter and somewhat spicy. Perfect oils to use raw and to cook fish, stir-fries,…

The good run of Spanish wine during the first quarter of this year, leading the post-pandemic recovery of world wine trade, maintains this upward trend in the month of May, reaching growth in the first five months of 2021 of + 15% in value and +21% by volume.The data correspond to the recent report Spanish Exports of Wine and Vitivinicultural Products May 2021, carried out by the Spanish Wine Market Observatory, in which it is collected that, although these figures are being compared with the month of May 2020, which was very negative due to the effects of the global…

The Diputación de Jaén announces a new edition of the International Prize for cooking with Extra Virgin Olive Oil Jaén Paraíso Interior, a contest aimed at professional chefs and individuals who dedicate themselves to the hospitality sector, who in their proposals must use some of the Jaén oils Selection 2021, the best in the province in the last harvest. Last year, and despite the difficulties caused by the pandemic, the International Prize for cooking with Extra Virgin Olive Oil Jaén Paraíso Interior had the participation of fifty-one chefs. On this occasion, and as in the last edition, the selection process…

Gastronomic Forum Barcelona is already preparing its celebration, from October 18 to 20 at the Fira de Barcelona Montjuïc venue, and it does so with a determined commitment to a more sustainable diet, not only as a social demand and imperative, but as a fundamental axis of new practices that are gaining weight in food and beverage production and distribution companies.For this reason, sustainability will be the transversal thematic axis of Gastronomic Forum Barcelona and will be present both in the interventions of the great chefs that make up its congress and in debates, presentations, awards and contests of the…

The next edition of Salón Gourmets (SG), which will take place from October 18 to 21, will once again host the grand final of GourmetQuesos, the Championship of The Best Cheeses of Spain, one of the most extensive and representative of the sector. to which around eight hundred samples of artisan cheeses from all over the national territory have been presented. And from this total of cheeses received, after having been subjected to various blind tastings, the jury, coordinated by the master cheesemaker José Luis Martín and made up of sixty professionals from all sectors of the world of cheese,…