We continue reading Josep Roca and Inma Puig’s book, Tras las viñas. We return to the old continent. And to the regions where wine became mythical: Bordeaux and Burgundy (always in order of appearance). The names of the people interviewed may not ring a bell, but the wineries they represent will undoubtedly be familiar to […]
The book that will occupy our next literary instalments is a book that is not only attractive in terms of its content, the text as such – and especially as regards “attracting” people to its objective, namely wine, as I hope all the books reviewed to date are – but also in terms of its […]
Temperature: The month of November was very cold overall, with an average temperature in peninsular Spain of 8.2 ºC, which is 1.2 ºC below the average for this month (reference period: 1981-2010). This was the tenth coldest November since the beginning of the series in 1961, and the fourth coldest of the 21st century, behind […]
Temperature: October has been warm overall, with an average temperature in peninsular Spain of 15.4 ⁰C, a value that is 1.0 ⁰C above the average for this month (reference period: 1981-2010). This was the 19th warmest October since the beginning of the series in 1961 and the 10th warmest of the 21st century. However, in […]
Roger Scruton I Drink Therefore I am. The randomness of the readings that underpin these letters leads us to deal now with another book written in English, and another posthumous tribute. It is “I Drink Therefore I am”, subtitled “A Philosopher’s Guide to Wine”, by the English philosopher Roger Scruton, first published in 2009. English […]
Temperature: September has been warm overall, with an average temperature in peninsular Spain of 19.7 ⁰C, a value that is 0.5 ⁰C above the average for this month (reference period: 1981-2010). This was the 21st warmest September since the beginning of the series in 1961 and the eighth warmest of the 21st century. Although it […]
Temperatura El mes de agosto ha tenido en conjunto un carácter muy cálido, con una temperatura media en la España peninsular de 23,6 ⁰C, valor que queda 0,9 ⁰C por encima de la media de este mes (periodo de referencia: 1981-2010). Se ha tratado del noveno agosto más cálido desde el comienzo de la serie […]
Temperature: The month of July as a whole has been ever so slightly cooler than normal, with an average temperature in mainland Spain of 22.8 ⁰C, a value that is 0.1 ⁰C below the average for this month (reference period: 1981-2010) . It was the thirty first coldest July since the start of the series […]
The time comes to say the word and you let it flow, help it to slip between your lips, already anchored in its time limits. The word is founded by itself, it sounds there in the heart of the speaker and climbs little by little until it is born and before it is nothing and […]
Nowadays, sayings are in the doldrums, and no less so the so-called, in Spanish, “refraneros”, understood not in the academic sense of collection of sayings, but in the colloquial sense of people who are prone to foist them upon others without rhyme or reason, that is, a person who uses sayings all the time. The […]
