The Colin Harkness Wine Review

Colin Harkness When I met Rodrigo in the pristine entrance to Altea’s out of town wine retailer, BORPE, he paused before speaking to me. This, I learned later, was to allow me to fully process what I was seeing. He’d noticed the tell-tale sign on my face, a look common to all who enter this […]

In the Blue Corner, from New Mexico, USA, Michele Padberg; In the Red Corner, from Cheshire, UK, but nowadays, Alicante, Spain, Colin Harkness – this lightweight contest comes to your screens via 5Barricas’ Valencia Plaza online magazine!

We finally met Francisco, universally known as, Curro, the visionary owner of Coster d’En Sala, after a couple of enforced postponements – and I’m so pleased we did! Our first date was cancelled because of an Orange Weather Alert, likely to turn Red.

Benitachell’s Chinese Restaurant, Beniasia, opened in 2003 and became instantly popular. The old town was expanding. Madrileños, desperate to escape the escalating heat (climate change had been acknowledged over a decade ago) wanted a casita by the sea. Conversely, Northern Europeans still sought the sun, despite there being increasingly more of it in their own countries.

Next in the series is Vinum Enoteca, just a cork’s pop from the beach in Calpe. There’s parking nearby, so I’d recommend going to Calpe for the day – enjoy its beach, the sea, the shops and restaurants, of course, and before returning home call in to the wine shop.

Tribute Bands – it’s a term that’s amused me for many years. Supposedly, the bands playing, for example old Beatles songs, perform those numbers as a tribute to the originals, to honour the truly great legends of the past.

Moraira, Alicante is a very pretty, small town on Spain’s Costa Blanca. Over the last 26 years I’ve watched it grow, mainly to accommodate a large influx of foreign residents, including ourselves.

In my, largely mis-spent youth, I was aware of Sparkling Wine, which was another way of saying Champagne – as far as I knew, the only type of alcoholic fizz.

this is January’s Colin Harkness Roving Wine Report, though it may not seem like it!

Well, it’s a little tenuous I admit, but I wanted to place Adele and Shakespeare in the same sentence whilst simultaneously having a link, no matter how obscure, to this month’s Wine Matters column.